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The impeachment of President Park Geun-hye of South Korea in response to a major political scandal is unanimously upheld by the country's Constitutional Court, ending her presidency.
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Impeachment of Park Geun-hye
2016 South Korean presidential impeachment
On 9 December 2016, Park Geun-hye, the president of South Korea, was impeached as the culmination of a political scandal involving interventions to the presidency from her aide, Choi Soon-sil. 234 members of the 300-member National Assembly voted to impeach and temporarily…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
President of South Korea
Head of state and government of South Korea
The president of the Republic of Korea, also known as the president of South Korea, is the head of state and head of government of South Korea. The president directs the executive branch of the government and is the commander-in-chief of the Republic of Korea Armed Forces.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Park Geun-hye
President of South Korea from 2013 to 2017
Park Geun-hye is a South Korean politician who served as the 11th president of South Korea from 2013 until her removal from office in 2017. Park was the first and to date only woman to be elected president of South Korea, and also the first woman to be popularly elected as a…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
South Korea
Country in East Asia
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korean Peninsula and borders North Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone, with the Yellow Sea to the west and the Sea of Japan to the east. Like North…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
2016 South Korean political scandal
President Park Geun-hye corruption scandal
The 2016 South Korean political scandal, often called Park Geun-hye–Choi Soon-sil Gate in South Korea, was a scandal that emerged around October 2016 in relation to the unusual access that Choi Soon-sil, the daughter of shaman-esque cult leader Choi Tae-min, had to President…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Constitutional Court of Korea
Highest constitutional court of South Korea
The Constitutional Court of Korea (Korean: 헌법재판소) is one of the apex courts – along with the Supreme Court – in South Korea's judiciary that exercises constitutional review, seated in Jongno, Seoul. The South Korean constitution vests judicial power in courts composed of judges,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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