When impeached president Park Geun-hye leaves South Korea's presidential palace she will go back to her house in Seoul's luxury Gangnam district surrounded by a high wall and bamboo. Shielded from prosecution while in office, Park could face criminal charges, the possibility of detention pending trial, and finally a jail sentence. One former president spent almost two years in detention in the 1990s awaiting his trial. In 1979, after a nine-day funeral following the assassination of her father, President Park Chung Hee, the young Park left the Blue House with her siblings for a family home. Like Samsung's Lee and Choi, Park's friend at the centre of the scandal, the outgoing president will probably be held in solitary confinement.

Source: The Star March 10, 2017 05:03 UTC