Skorea President Impeachment Ruins Legacy Of Dictator Father

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Park Geun-hye could always rely on one unwavering gift throughout a political career that saw a triumphant return as South Korea's first female president to the palatial Blue House where she'd lived as a girl: [...] — isolated, mocked and loathed by millions of protesters who swarmed the streets around her presidential fortress on the side of a sacred granite mountain — even the conservative adulation that had been her political bedrock failed to save her. Park was accused of allowing the daughter of a cult leader, Choi Soon-sil, a close friend long mired in corruption scandals, to extort companies and play an extraordinary role in government affairs, even though she had no official position. Even before the Choi scandal, however, complaints about her "imperial" leadership style, ineffectiveness in curbing North Korean provocations, attacks on free speech and dissenters, and government mismanagement of rescue operations after a deadly ferry sinking blamed in part on corruption and incompetence had dinged those hopes. In a recent column, Herald Business, a conservative daily, said public calls to remove the president were also a demand to end the "Park Chung-hee myth," which was "based on an imperial kind of leadership."

 

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