Park Geun-hye has become the first democratically elected South Korean president to be forced from office, after the country’s constitutional court upheld a parliamentary vote to impeach her over a corruption and cronyism scandal that could see her face criminal charges. “President Park Geun-Hye … has been dismissed. The 65-year-old must now await her legal fate as the most unpopular South Korean leader since the country became a democracy in the late 1980s. Her father, South Korean dictator Park Chung-hee, was killed by his own chief of security five years later. Park is not the first South Korean leader to have been impeached by the national assembly.

Source: The Guardian March 10, 2017 02:24 UTC