Protesters shout slogans during a candlelight vigil in Seoul on Jan. 7, 2017, calling for impeached South Korean President Park Geun-hye to step down. Not only will she have been South Korea’s first female president, she will also become South Korea’s first president to be impeached. South Korean President Park Geun-Hye bows during an address to the nation at the presidential Blue House in Seoul on Nov. 29, 2016. In the late 1990s, she became a lawmaker in the conservative party and was elected South Korea’s first female president in 2012. Previous South Korean presidents have been embroiled in corruption scandals, usually involving their family members.

Source: Washington Post March 09, 2017 05:03 UTC