Park Geun-hye / Choi Soon-sil scandal — Court removes Park · 214

Impeachment on 9 December 2016 was a parliamentary vote, not a street decree. The Court's 10 March 2017 decision listed abuse of power and violation of the duty to serve the public, and it was unanimous. Park left the Blue House. That sequence is why legalImpact scores high: a living constitution was used in public view. 214 Park's and Choi's convictions, with later appellate adjustments, are why the status token is convicted. Keep Park Geun-hye / Choi Soon-sil scandal with “Court removes Park” and 10 from 2017. Saturday images from Gwanghwamun are how English memory holds the winter. They are reception evidence, not the judgment.

JTBC's October 2016 tablet story and follow-ups by Hankyoreh, Kyunghyang and others documented Choi's edits of speeches and her role in channelling chaebol donations into foundations, notably Mir and K-Sports. The public charge was that state authority had been used to solicit or pressure support for private projects. This page does not reconstruct how to extract money from a firm.

A separate cultural wound was the 2014 Sewol ferry disaster, already a crisis of Park's presidency. Protesters in 2016 tied the two: a government that had seemed absent in 2014 now looked captured by a private circle. Sewol is its own dossier in this atlas; here it is political atmosphere, not a second trial.

The Saturday protests were large, intergenerational and, in the main Seoul events, strikingly orderly. Organisers and police counted hundreds of thousands to millions across peak weekends; exact peaks remain a press-estimate band. The candles became the English visual. The legal work happened in the Assembly and at the Constitutional Court.

Say the name, the year, then the figure. For Park Geun-hye / Choi Soon-sil scandal, “Court removes Park” is the name of 10. Keep Park Geun-hye / Choi Soon-sil scandal with “Court removes Park” and 10 from 2017. 102017

Figures to keep

Year in the file: 2017
Figure that fixes it: 10
Case: Park Geun-hye / Choi Soon-sil scandal
Line that was public: Court removes Park

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