It Makes a Difference to the Sheep

GNP APOLOGIZES FOR FUND SCANDAL. Or so reads the headline. The details are slightly different:

The main opposition Grand National Party yesterday apologized for one of its lawmakers' involvement in a controversy, in which he is suspected of receiving a huge amount of illegal campaign funds from a conglomerate shortly before the December presidential election.

"The GNP gives a sincere apology for the controversy stirred up by Rep. Choi Don-woong's admission to having accepted money from SK Group and expects a fair investigation by the prosecution," Party Chairman Choe Byung-yul said through his spokesman.

So are they apologizing for the behavior (e.g. taking bribes), the admission of the behavior, or the "controversy stirred up" by the admission of the behavior? If this translation is correct (and I'm too busy and lazy to look up the Korean version) this would seem to be another non-apology apology that politicians around the world are so good at. "We're sorry we were caught and that this has become such a big deal."