The disgraced South Korean president, Park Geun-hye, has offered to resign and called on parliament to arrange her exit amid a corruption and cronyism scandal that has all but destroyed her administration. “I will leave to parliament everything about my future including shortening of my term,” Park said in her third public address since the scandal broke. No South Korean president has failed to complete a term since the current democratic system was introduced in 1987. Five years later, in 1979, Park’s father, the then South Korean leader Park Chung-hee, was killed by his own head of intelligence. Last week Park Geun-hye’s approval rating fell to just 4% percent in a Gallup poll – an all-time low for any democratically elected South Korean president.

Source: The Guardian November 29, 2016 06:17 UTC