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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 ...
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 ...
The impeachment of Park Geun-hye, after huge protests over corruption, marked the first time a South Korean president was legally removed from office. The impeachment of Park Geun-hye, after huge ...
South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Friday he will pardon his chief conservative rival and predecessor, Park Geun-hye, who is serving a lengthy prison term for bribery and other crimes. Moon ...
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 ...
The same optimism abounded almost exactly eight years ago, when over 1 million candlelight protesters called to oust South Korean President Park Geun-hye on corruption charges. In what appeared to ...
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.
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 ...