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South Korea’s President Offers to Resign Amid Corruption Scandal

HeadlineNov 29, 2016

South Korean President Park Geun-hye has offered to resign amid an ongoing corruption scandal. Earlier this month, as many as 1 million people took to the streets of Seoul to demand her resignation over claims she helped a close friend embezzle up to $70 million. She said she’d let the National Assembly decide if and when she should leave office.

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