PARK GEUN HYE

Former South Korean president, on trial for corruption, denied all charges

1 Park was impeached in December after mass demonstrations demanding her removal over a scandal centred around Choi Soon Sil, her friend of 40 years, and implicating some of the country’s top businessmen 2 Park was detained soon after her dismissal and indicted on 18 charges including bribery, coercion and abuse of power for offering governmental favours to tycoons 3 The trial, expected to last for months, is the final act in the drama that engulfed Park, the daughter of a dictator, who went on to be elected president herself, before being sacked.