The departure and disgrace of Park Guen-hye

Abstract

At 11am Seoul time on 10 March, eight judges of South Korea’s Constitutional Court, in a nationally televised decision, ruled unanimously to remove President Park Geun-hye from office.

Park is the first democratically elected South Korean president ever to be ousted by impeachment. In 2004, then-president Roh Moo-hyun was impeached by the National Assembly on charges of interfering with an election and of corruption among his associates, but the Constitutional Court overturned parliament’s decision and Roh was reinstated. Show more