Opponents of South Korea’s ousted leader, Park Geun-hye, demanded on Saturday that she be arrested a day after she was thrown out of office over a corruption scandal involving the country’s conglomerates. “We demand the arrest of Park Geun-hye and the resignation of acting president Hwang Kyo-ahn,” said Choi In-sook, a spokeswoman for protesters opposed to Park, told Reuters. Park is South Korea’s first democratically elected leader to be forced from office. Fall from graceThe court ruling marked a dramatic fall from grace of South Korea’s first woman president and daughter of Cold War military dictator Park Chung-hee, both of whose parents were assassinated. Park was accused of soliciting bribes from the head of the Samsung Group, the country’s largest conglomerate, for government favors.

Source: Dhaka Tribune March 11, 2017 04:41 UTC