Former President of the Republic of Korea (ROK) Park Geun-hye was sentenced to 20 years in jail and fined 20 billion won over a corruption scandal that led to her impeachment in 2017, a ROK court ruled on Friday. Park, the first female president of the ROK, was brought ...
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- South Korean special prosecutors on Monday said acting President Hwang Kyo-ahn has yet to respond to their calls over extending investigation into a corruption scandal that led to the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye. South Korea's opposition parties urged Hwang...
South Korea, on April 6, 2018. Impeached South Korean President Park Geun-hye was sentenced to 24 years in prison on Friday over a corruption scandal that exposed the deep-rooted collusive ties between politicians and businessmen viewed as being hard to root out. (...
SOUTH Korean President Park Geun-hye, engulfed in an influence peddling scandal, says that if she is impeached she will wait for a court to uphold the decision, a party official said yesterday, a sign the political crisis could drag on for months. Park’s embattled presidency faces a critic...
Park geun-hyeApologyA reasonable apology is very important to the political scandal. Due to the particularity of the political event, we should pay attention to the time, attitude and content of apologizing. This article will focus on the improper apologies of political figures, taking Park's ...
The political turmoil prompted by the corruption scandal surrounding president Park Geun-hye and her confidante, Choi Soon-sil, convulsed South Korea in the winter of 2016/17. Park's response was not only ineffective, but inflammatory. Intense public frustration, together with mounting circumstantial...
THE confidante of South Korean President Park Geun-hye yesterday denied using her ties to the president to extort money from major companies when she appeared in court on the first day of her trial. The hourlong hearing at the Seoul Central District Court was the first public appea...
SEOUL, March 10 (Xinhua) -- South Korean President Park Geun-hye was ousted as the country's head of state on Friday after the constitutional court upheld a motion to impeach the scandal-ridden leader. The court's acting Chief Justice Lee Jung-mi read the ruling on the impeachment, broadc...
SEOUL, March 10 (Xinhua) --South Korean President Park Geun-hye was ousted on Friday as the country's head of state after the constitutional court upheld a motion to impeach the scandal-scarred leader. The court's acting Chief Justice Lee Jung-mi read the ruling on the impeachment, broadca...