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Impeaching the Queen, Korean Style

South Korea’s National Assembly voted to impeach President Park Geun-hye Dec. 9.  Since then, Park has been suspended from power and the nation is waiting on a Constitutional Court ruling finalizing the impeachment process, to reinstate or permanently remove Park from office. 

Among other things, perhaps what troubles South Koreans most is the drastic uncertainty ahead.  Most importantly, it is hard to predict how the Constitutional Court would rule on the case.  It may be that there is a fair chance the court will rule against the impeachment, since the court’s ideological make-up of the Court became quite conservative (with three recent appointments of the justices by Park herself) and given that impeachment requires a supermajority of six or more of the nine justices.

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