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SEOUL: Disgraced South Korean leader Park Geun-hye left the presidential Blue House on Sunday (Mar 12), two days after a court dismissed her over a corruption scandal, bound for her private home and facing the possibility of prosecution and jail.
Park left the compound in a motorcade of fast-driving black cars, flanked by police motorbikes, after bidding farewell to staff, an official said. She was heading for her home in the Gangnam district of the capital, Seoul, where hundreds of flag-waving supporters waited.
...A snap presidential election will be held by May 9.
Park, 65, is South Korea's first democratically elected leader to be forced from office.
Her dismissal followed months of political paralysis and turmoil over the graft scandal that also landed the head of the Samsung conglomerate in jail and facing trial.
The crisis has coincided with rising tension with North Korea and anger from China over the deployment in South Korea of a US missile-defence system.
Park did not appear in court on Friday and she has not made any comment since. She remained in the Blue House, prompting some grumbling from critics keen to see her stripped of the privileges of power.
Her dismissal marked a dramatic fall from grace of South Korea's first woman president and daughter of Cold War military dictator Park Chung-hee.
South Korea's ousted president leaves presidential complex
There were questions if she was actually going to leave the Blue House. Most of that appears to have been from the Net.
Park left the compound in a motorcade of fast-driving black cars, flanked by police motorbikes, after bidding farewell to staff, an official said. She was heading for her home in the Gangnam district of the capital, Seoul, where hundreds of flag-waving supporters waited.
...A snap presidential election will be held by May 9.
Park, 65, is South Korea's first democratically elected leader to be forced from office.
Her dismissal followed months of political paralysis and turmoil over the graft scandal that also landed the head of the Samsung conglomerate in jail and facing trial.
The crisis has coincided with rising tension with North Korea and anger from China over the deployment in South Korea of a US missile-defence system.
Park did not appear in court on Friday and she has not made any comment since. She remained in the Blue House, prompting some grumbling from critics keen to see her stripped of the privileges of power.
Her dismissal marked a dramatic fall from grace of South Korea's first woman president and daughter of Cold War military dictator Park Chung-hee.
South Korea's ousted president leaves presidential complex
There were questions if she was actually going to leave the Blue House. Most of that appears to have been from the Net.
