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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 8 January 2025. President of South Korea from 2013 to 2017 In this Korean name, the family name is Park. Her Excellency Park Geun-hye 박근혜 Official portrait, 2013 11th President of South Korea In office 25 February 2013 – 10 March 2017 [a] Prime Minister Chung Hong-won Lee Wan-koo Choi Kyoung-hwan ...
Park Geun-hye (pictured in 2013) was accused of being improperly influenced by Choi Soon-sil. The 2016 South Korean political scandal, often called Park Geun-hye–Choi Soon-sil Gate in South Korea (Korean: 박근혜·최순실 게이트), was a scandal that emerged around October 2016 in relation to the unusual access that Choi Soon-sil, the daughter of shaman-esque cult leader Choi Tae-min ...
Immediate response to the decision of the Constitutional Court of Korea on 10 March 2017. On 9 December 2016, Park Geun-hye, the president of South Korea, was impeached as the culmination of a political scandal involving interventions to the presidency from her aide, Choi Soon-sil. 234 members of the 300-member National Assembly voted to impeach and temporarily suspend Park's presidential ...
The Supreme Prosecutors' Office has created a special investigation bureau to examine the case for the first time since it probed a 2016 corruption scandal engulfing then-President Park Geun-hye ...
The impeachment of Park Geun-hye, after huge protests over corruption, marked the first time a South Korean president was legally removed from office.
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Get together! Get angry! #Resign_ParkGeun-hye candlelight vigil (Korean: 모이자! 분노하자! #내려와라_박근혜 시민 촛불) was the first candlelight vigil held on October 29, 2016, to demand resignation of President Park Geun-hye. This was a vigil that opened the prelude to a total of 20 candlelight vigils, with 30,000 citizens ...
The Choi Soon-sil scandal, also known as Choigate or Choïgate, is a major political scandal that took place at the end of 2016 involving Choi Soon-sil, South Korean businesswoman and confidante of the president, Park Geun-hye. This case resulted in a process of dismissal of President Park for abuse of authority.