https://internationalviewpoint.org/ International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://internationalviewpoint.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH25/siteon0-da713.png?1745245334 https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 25 144 https://internationalviewpoint.org/What-South-Korean-president-Park-s-political-demise-means-for-the-region-s https://internationalviewpoint.org/What-South-Korean-president-Park-s-political-demise-means-for-the-region-s 2017-04-12T09:52:37Z text/html en The Conversation UK South Korea <p>South Korea's former president, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/30/world/asia/park-geun-hye-south-korea-arrest.html?emc=edit_mbe_20170331&nl=morning-briefing-europe&nlid=64524812&te=1&_r=1" class="spip_out" rel="external">Park Geun-hye</a> , has been arrested on charges including extortion, bribery and abuse of power over an <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-39335211" class="spip_out" rel="external">influence-peddling scandal</a> that led to her impeachment by the National Assembly in December 2016. That decision was upheld by the Constitutional Court in March.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV507-April-2017-" rel="directory">IV507 - April 2017</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-South-Korea-+" rel="tag">South Korea</a>