Besides South Korean President Park Geun-hye, the biggest casualty of the country's mushrooming political corruption scandal may be the presidential aspirations of United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. But the scandal that has become known as "Park Geun-hye-Gate" and threatens Park's presidency has sowed division in the party. "It doesn't make any sense at all now for Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to join the Saenuri Party. It is not unusual for a major South Korean political party to break into factions, with the mainstream forming a new party. Ban, 72, was South Korean foreign minister from 2004-2006 under the liberal President Roh Moo-hyun, but was a non-partisan career diplomat.

Source: dna December 05, 2016 10:06 UTC