{"id":11663,"date":"2017-03-12T10:13:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T10:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/south-koreas-park-leaves-presidential-palace-after-impeachment\/"},"modified":"2017-03-12T10:13:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T10:13:45","slug":"south-koreas-park-leaves-presidential-palace-after-impeachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/south-koreas-park-leaves-presidential-palace-after-impeachment\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea&#8217;s Park leaves presidential palace after impeachment"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Breaking News image\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef-1.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/CD91\/production\/_91952625_breaking_image_large-3-1.png\"\/>                      <\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">Ousted South Korean leader Park Geun-hye has now left the presidential palace, two days after judges upheld parliament&#039;s decision to impeach her.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Park, who has still not commented on the ruling, is heading for her home in southern Seoul.<\/p>\n<p>She has been impeached over her role in a corruption scandal involving close friend, Choi Soon-sil.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Park&#039;s opponents, who are calling for her arrest, and her supporters both held rallies in Seoul on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Park has now lost her immunity and could face criminal proceedings over accusations she allowed Ms Choi to extort money from companies in return for political favours.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Park left the presidential complex, the so-called Blue House, at about 19:00 local time (10:00 GMT) on Sunday after saying goodbye to her staff.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of her supporters were waiting for her at her home in the Samseong district, with about 1,000 police in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>Workers were seen carrying household goods into the two-storey private residence.<\/p>\n<p>Hwang Kyo-ahn, who is loyal to Ms Park, is now the acting president.<\/p>\n<p>The country&#039;s election commission says a &quot;free and fair&quot; vote will be held by 9 May at the latest.<\/p>\n<p>The early front-runner in the election, human rights lawyer Moon Jae-in, of the Democratic Party, warned Ms Park she &quot;must not destroy or take the national records outside&quot; the Blue House. <\/p>\n<p><a rel='nofollow' href=http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-39247940 target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ousted South Korean leader Park Geun-hye has now left the presidential palace, two days after judges upheld parliament&#039;s decision to impeach her. Ms Park, who has still not commented on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}