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Former South Korean President Park Geun-hye leaves the Samsung Medical Center for a home in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, March 24, 2022. Three months after receiving a pardon over one of South Korea’s worst government-corruption scandals, former President Park was finally going home on Thursday, following her release from a hospital in capital Seoul. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Thousands welcome home pardoned S. Korean ex-President Park

By Kim Tong-Hyung - Associated Press

South Korean Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Kim Myeong-su, top center, sits with other justices upon their arrival at the Supreme Court in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019. South Korea's top court on Thursday sent back jailed ex-President Park Geun-hye's corruption case to a lower court for separate trials for her previously convicted charges, a ruling that could increase her already-lengthy prison term. (Yonhap via AP)

S. Korean court sends Park, Samsung heir cases to new trials

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 17, 2016 file photo, protesters shout slogans during a rally against the impeached South Korean President Park Geun-hye in downtown Seoul, South Korea. The letters read &quot;Arrest, Park Geun-hye.&quot; South Korean President Moon Jae-in has ordered an investigation after a lawmaker disclosed a document drafted by a military intelligence unit that showed plans to deploy troops in Seoul amid massive protests last year to oust his conservative predecessor, now in prison on corruption charges. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

S. Korea probes army plan for troops to control protesters

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

South Korea to probe military plan to quell Park protests

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

In this Aug. 7, 2017, file photo, former South Korean President Park Geun-hye, left, arrives for her trial at the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul, Monday, Aug. 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

Park Geun-hye, ex-South Korean leader, gets 24-year prison term

By Hyung-jin Kim and Kim Tong-hyung - Associated Press

In this Oct. 10, 2017, file photo, former South Korean President Park Geun-hye, left, arrives to attend a hearing on the extension of her detention at the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul, South Korea. Prosecutors on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018, have demanded a 30-year prison term for Park for alleged bribery, abuse of power and other crimes in a landmark corruption case that marked a stunning fall from grace for the country’s first female leader and former conservative icon. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

Park Geun-hye, former South Korean president, deserves 30 years in jail, prosecutors say

By Kim Tong-hyung - Associated Press

Park Geun-hye, former South Korean leader, indicted on corruption charges, now faces trial

By Hyung-jin Kim - Associated Press

South Korea's ousted leader Park Geun-hye arrives at the prosecutor's office in Seoul, South Korea, in this March 21, 2017, file photo. Media reports say that South Korean prosecutors have decided to ask a court issue a warrant to arrest former President Park on corruption allegations. (Kim Hong-ji/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Park Geun-hye corruption case: South Korea prosecutors push to arrest ousted president

By Hyung-jin Kim - Associated Press

The vehicle carrying ousted South Korean President Park Geun-hye leaves from her private home to prosecutors office in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, March 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon).

Park Geun-hye to be questioned in South Korea corruption scandal

Associated Press

South Korea's ambassador to France Mo Chul-min, front right, arrives at the office of the independent counsel in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Dec. 29, 2016. South Korean investigators on Thursday summoned Mo as they widened their inquiry into a corruption scandal involving impeached President Park Geun-hye to include allegations that her administration blacklisted thousands of artists for their political beliefs. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

South Korea investigators look into alleged artist blacklist

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

Choi Soon-sil, center, the jailed confidante of disgraced South Korean President Park Geun-hye, appears for the first day of her trial at the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Dec. 19, 2016. (Korea Pool via AP)

Choi Soon-sil, Park Geun-hye confidante, denies in trial that she extorted money

By Hyung-jin Kim - Associated Press

Park Geun-hye, South Korea leader, offers conditional resignation amid scandal

By Foster Klug and Kim Tong-hyung - Associated Press

South Korean President Park Geun-hye speaks during an address to the nation, at the presidential Blue House in Seoul Friday, Nov. 4, 2016. Park took sole blame Friday for a "heartbreaking" scandal that threatens her government and vowed she will accept a direct investigation into her actions amid rising suspicion that she allowed a mysterious confidante to manipulate power from the shadows. (Ed Jones/Pool Photo via AP)

Park Geun-hye, South Korean leader, says with voice shaking that scandal is ‘all my fault’

By Foster Klug and Hyung-jin Kim - Associated Press

South Korean President Park Geun-hye reshuffled her Cabinet on Wednesday in what critics say is an attempt to divert public attention away from a snowballing corruption scandal involving a longtime friend, who is now in police custody. (Associated Press)

Park Geun-hye of South Korea reshuffles cabinet as scandals prompt calls for resignation

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Choi Soon-sil, center left, a cult leader's daughter with a decades-long connection to President Park Geun-hye, is surrounded by prosecutor's officers and media upon her arrival at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Oct. 31, 2016. South Korea is hoping for answers Monday about its biggest scandal in years. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Choi Soon-sil, woman in scandal roiling South Korea, says she ‘deserves death’

By Foster Klug - Associated Press

With her domestic agenda likely gridlocked, some analysts say South Korean President Park Geun-hye will try to remain relevant beyond her borders. (Associated Press)

Park Geun-hye of South Korea to focus on North Korea threat after party’s election defeat

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

South Korea President Park Geun-hye lays a wreath Monday at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery. She meets with President Obama on Tuesday at the White House.
(associated press)

Obama, South Korea’s Park are likely to temper any tensions

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

South Korean President-elect Park Geun-Hye has promised more humanitarian aid for North Korea and deeper engagement, but Pyongyang is likely to try to dominate their relations. (Associated Press)

Park faces uncertainty with N. Korea

By Foster Klug - Associated Press

Park Geun-hye waves to supporters after arriving at the party headquarters in Seoul on Wednesday. The new South Korean president will be returning to the presidential palace where her father, Park Chung-hee, ruled for 18 years. (Associated Press)

Park breaks through ‘glass ceiling’ to win presidency of South Korea

By Andrew Salmon and Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

South Korean President-elect Park Geun-hye of the ruling Saenuri Party waves to supporters after arriving at party headquarters in Seoul on Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Kim Jae-hwan, Pool)

Dictator’s daughter Park elected South Korea’s first female president

By Foster Klug and Hyung-jin Kim - Associated Press