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⚖️ Park Geun-hye / Choi Soon-sil scandal

Park–Choi scandal evidence

JTBC's tablet reporting, impeachment records, the 10 March 2017 judgment and the 2018 criminal convictions.

The public evidence is journalistic first, constitutional second and criminal third.

What is thinner is the inner psychology of the Park–Choi friendship — a tabloid temptation, not a missing verdict.

Exhibits

Exhibit A

JTBC tablet and speech files

Device

The 2016 broadcast about a tablet tied to Choi, plus speech drafts, is the opening public exhibit. Other Korean outlets corroborated the access story.

Exhibit B

Mir and K-Sports paper

Ledger

Foundation fundraising from chaebol, as charged and later tried, is the money exhibit. It is a court file, not a lesson in solicitation.

Exhibit C

National Assembly impeachment record

Document

The 9 December 2016 vote is the parliamentary exhibit. Crowds did not substitute for it.

Exhibit D

Constitutional Court decision, 10 March 2017

Court

The unanimous removal opinion is the civic core: abuse of power and breach of public duty, written as constitutional law.

Exhibit E

2018 criminal judgments

Court

Park's and Choi's convictions, with later appellate adjustments, are why the status token is convicted.

Exhibit F

Candlelight photo record

Press

Saturday images from Gwanghwamun are how English memory holds the winter. They are reception evidence, not the judgment.

How strong is the record?

That Choi had irregular access
90

Reporting and courts treated the speech-and-foundation channel as proved.

Constitutional removal
98

The 10 March 2017 decision is not in dispute.

Criminal convictions
88

Park and Choi were convicted; a later pardon did not acquit.

English metaphor accuracy
50

Watergate and Rasputin frames are half-fit reception, not Korean procedure.

Evidence removed a president and convicted the central pair. Clemency edited the sentence, not the finding.

Public-record encyclopedia. Not legal advice. Not a how-to. Graphic detail is withheld. Wars belong in a separate atlas.

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