A former close aide to South Korean President Park Geun-hye has testified to prosecutors that he leaked confidential documents to Park's long-time confidante Choi Soon-sil under the president's instructions, local media outlets reported on Tuesday.
The move comes amid a major political scandal
The raid was part of probe into the influence-peddling scandal involving a close friend of President Park Geun-hye
In only a few days, South Korea’s biggest scandal in years has done what six decades of diplomacy and bloodshed couldn’t. It has united the rival Koreas, at least in one area: indignation against South Korea’s leader.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, once seen as the front-runner to become the next president of South Korea if he decides to run, has slipped to second place in public support amid a political crisis engulfing the current leader, a poll suggests.
President Park Geun-hye's new chief of staff held talks with the head of the ruling Saenuri Party and the parliamentary speaker Monday but failed to meet opposition leaders, as the embattled chief executive is calling for a meeting of political leaders to resolve the burgeoning scandal surrounding her confidante.
The South Korean political system has been shaken to its core over the revelations that President Park Geun-hye has been taking secret advice from Choi Soon-sil, a friend of 40 years who held no official position and had no policy background.
Tens of thousands of enraged South Koreans rallied in Seoul and other places Saturday night to demand President Park Geun-hye's resignation over a scandal involving her longtime confidante and ex-advisors.
Rival political parties in South Korea showed different reactions to President Park Geun-hye's national address on Friday, her second since a scandal involving her longtime confidante and former aides came into focus last month.
President Park Geun-hye said Friday she will accept an investigation over a sprawling corruption scandal involving her close confidante "if necessary," raising the prospect of her becoming the first sitting South Korean head of state to face a prosecutorial probe.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Thursday named her new chief of staff and her secretary on political affairs after the former senior policy adviser was placed under an emergency detention in a follow-up reshuffle amid rising public anger at a scandal surrounding Choi Soon-sil, Park's longtime confidante suspected of having meddled in state affairs.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Wednesday reshuffled the cabinet, naming new prime minister, deputy minister for economic affairs and public safety minister amid a controversial scandal surrounding her longtime confidante, Park's office said.
Choi Soon-sil, a longtime confidante of South Korean President Park Geun-hye, was summoned on Monday by prosecutors on various allegations, including her intervention in state affairs since Park took office in February 2013.
Choi Soon-sil, a confidante of President Park Geun-hye, was questioned by prosecutors Monday over allegations of interfering in state affairs and peddling influence, a day after she returned from Europe where she had been residing for nearly two months.
Choi Soon-sil, a longtime confidante of President Park Geun-hye who allegedly calls Park "sister," is suspected of having pulled strings behind the scenes and intervened in state affairs.
South Korean prosecutors on Saturday (Oct 29) raided the presidential Blue House, as well as the homes and offices of senior advisers to President Park Geun Hye, as she struggled with a corruption and influence-peddling scandal involving a close family friend.
South Koreans have been riveted for weeks by a scandal involving the president and a shadowy adviser accused of being a "shaman fortune-teller" by opposition politicians.
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