Trial decides fate of South Korean President Park Geun hye

Impeached President Park Geun Hye has announced that she will not attend the final impeachment hearing of the Constitutional Court.

As scheduled, today (February 27), the Constitutional Court of South Korea will hold the final impeachment hearing against President Park Geun Hye in relation to the corruption scandal that is rocking the country's politics. However, impeached President Park Geun Hye announced that she will not attend the trial, which is expected to decide her fate and the future of her administration.

Marchers said they hoped for a wise ruling from the Constitutional Court of South Korea. (Photo: AP)

Yonhap news agency quoted a lawyer defending South Korean President Park Geun Hye as saying that the leader will not appear at the final impeachment hearing of the Constitutional Court.

Previously, the Constitutional Court of South Korea stated that regardless of whether Park Geun Hye attended or not, the trial would still take place as scheduled. The Constitutional Court is currently reviewing the legality of the South Korean National Assembly's vote to impeach President Park Geun Hye late last year.

A day before the trial, hundreds of thousands of people from both sides of the court continued to protest in the capital Seoul. The local government had to mobilize tens of thousands of riot police to suppress the case. The marchers said they hoped for a wise ruling from the Constitutional Court of Korea.

“I joined the protest because today marks the fourth anniversary of President Park Geun Hye’s inauguration. This is a meaningful day. I hope that the judges of the Constitutional Court will listen to the legitimate wishes of the people and make the most correct decision.”

“I am here today to contribute my voice, to see how the Constitutional Court carries out its responsibility of justice. I hope that the country will soon end the current period so that people can live a better life,” said the marchers.

If the Constitutional Court of South Korea upholds the impeachment with the agreement of at least six of the nine judges, Park Geun-hye will be officially removed from office, marking the first time in South Korean political history that a President has had to leave the Blue House before the end of his term. At that time, the South Korean interim government has 60 days to hold a new election.

The storm has begun to rise in Korean politics and directly hit the “hot seat” of President Park Geun hye after a serious corruption scandal was exposed. President Park Geun hye was accused of allowing her close friend, Choi Soon-sil, to manipulate and interfere too deeply in state affairs and colluded with her in many scandalous business deals.

These emerging troubles have pushed President Park Geun Hye's administration to the brink of collapse, destroying the political legacy that her administration was pursuing. And it is also from this earthquake that has pushed Asia's fourth largest economy into a state of crisis and chaos.

Observers say that with what is happening in South Korea, President Park Geun-hye has almost no hope of saving the situation. More worryingly, the trust of the South Korean people in their leaders has never been as severely eroded as it is now.

Although President Park Geun Hye's administration has repeatedly bowed its head in apology and asked to correct its mistakes, it still cannot calm the wave of anger that seems to have built up and then erupted to the current climax among the people of the Land of Kim Chi.

According to VOV