SEOUL: South Korean President Park Geun-Hye on Friday agreed to be questioned by prosecutors as she sought to distance herself from a close personal friend at the centre of a corruption scandal engulfing her administration. A new Gallup poll published Friday put her approval rating at just five percent — an all-time low for a sitting South Korean president. In an at-times emotional address, Park said she had been living a “lonely life” as president and had turned to Choi for company and help. “I trusted my personal relationship, but was careless and not tough enough with my acquaintances,” she said, adding that the fallout from the scandal was “all my fault”. Choo Mi-Ae, the leader of the main opposition Democratic Party, dismissed Park’s address as unhelpful and self-serving.

Source: Manila Times November 04, 2016 04:07 UTC