Seoul, July 29 (Saba) - South Korea's Prime Minister Chung Un-chan offered to resign Thursday, holding himself responsible for the government's failure last month to get parliamentary approval for a bill to scrap a new administrative town project south of Seoul, South Korea's News Agency (Yonhap) reported.

"I'm offering my resignation as prime minister today," Chung Un-chan said in a nationally televised press conference.

Chung, who took office 10 months ago after serving as a university president, has been a top supporter of President Lee Myung-bak's push to revise the previous government's plan to relocate half of the government's ministries to the new administrative town of Sejong, which is under construction in central South Korea.

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