Park left the compound in a motorcade of fast-driving black cars, flanked by police motorbikes, after bidding farewell to staff, an official said. "President Park Geun-hye has just now departed the Blue House and headed for her private home," a Blue House official said by text message. She remained in the Blue House, prompting some grumbling from critics keen to see her stripped of the privileges of power. It was not the first time she has had to leave the Blue House compound of traditional-style buildings at the foot of a hill in central Seoul. In 1979, after a nine-day funeral following the assassination of her father, the young Park left the Blue House with her siblings for a family home.

Source: bd News24 March 12, 2017 11:05 UTC