Both sweeping immunity and overzealous prosecutions of former leaders can undermine democracy. But such prosecutions pose different risks for older democracies like the US than in younger ones.
South Korea continues to have a problem with abandoned babies and ongoing overseas adoption despite economic growth.
Jessica Walton
Balancing domestic expectations and delicate relations with neighbours while trying to deal with North Korea’s race to become a nuclear power will make for a challenging five-year term.
Beyond her own personal humiliation, the ramifications of Park’s fall are already reverberating from domestic South Korean politics into the fraught geopolitics of Northeast Asia.
One of the world’s cleaner democracies just threw out its president for corruption. How can countries do a better job of keeping their leaders clean?
South Korean protesters holding candles at a demonstration calling for President Park Geun-hye to step down in Seoul on November 26.
Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters
After weeks of mass demonstrations and a growing threat of impeachment, President Park Geun-Hye has said she is willing to resign before her term ends in February 2018.
Protesters wearing cut-outs of South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Choi Soon-sil attend a protest denouncing the president.
Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters
The president of South Korea has been accused of choosing her friends poorly.
Much to talk about: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang chat during a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
EPA/Kenzaburo Fukuhara
India wants closer engagement with its neighbours as it aspires to become a global manufacturing hub. Narendra Modi’s visits to China, Mongolia and South Korea are all about promoting this agenda.