Park Geun Hye Gwanghwamun

On saturday afternoon park presented herself to vast crowds in gwanghwamun for a major rally 9 days before.

Park geun hye gwanghwamun. Park geun hye the first female president of south korea 2013 17. The impeachment of park geun hye president of south korea was the culmination of a political scandal involving interventions to the presidency from her aide the impeachment vote took place on 9 december 2016 with 234 members of the 300 member national assembly voting in favour of the impeachment and temporary suspension of park geun hye s presidential powers and duties. The demonstration ostensibly was against the impeachment by the constitutional court of disgraced president park and the majority of the crowd were elderly and male with protesters. Park was the first woman to be president of south korea and also the first female president popularly elected as head of state.

After the impeachment of park geun hye on corruption charges in december the pro park rallies mobilized thousands of protesters for counter protests. A year later in 2018 she was sentenced to 24 years but that term was eventually increased to 25 years when new. Born 2 february 1952 is a former south korean politician who served as president of south korea from 2013 to 2017. In 2017 shortly after the impeachment park was charged with abuse of power bribery leaking of government secrets and coercion.

7 8 in february 2017 the liberty korea party at the time the ruling party of south korea claimed that the size of pro park rallies have begun to overwhelm the size of anti park rallies. Masses of protesters gathered in gwanghwamun square in central seoul on saturday chanting singing and holding banners reading park geun hye out and treason by a secret government. Protesters attend a candlelight rally for the impeachment of president park geun hye at gwanghwamun square in seoul south korea on february 11 2017. Park geun hye s campaign team are once again the most talked about thing on the internet as a doctored photo of a saenuri party rally that inflated crowd numbers was circulated in south korean online communities causing controversy and attracting thousands of comments from netizens.

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