South Korean President Park Geun-hye Impeached In Today's Memory, March 10, 2017

South Korean President Park Geun-hye descended the plane's stairs on a visit to Iran in 2016. Geun-hye was the first South Korean President to visit Iran. (Wikimedia Commons)

JAKARTA Memories of today, seven years ago, March 10, 2017, the South Korean Constitutional Court (South Korea) decided to impeach Park Geun-hye from his position as the number one person in Ginseng Country. The South Korean president is considered proven to have committed disgraceful acts, from extortion and corruption.

Previously, Park Geun-hye was not new to the South Korean world of politics. He is widely known as the son of the 3rd South Korean President, Park Chung-hee. His father's Karisma then became infectious. Park Geun-hye became South Korea's first female President.

It is possible that Park Chung-hee's leadership as president of the 1962-1979 era brought a big dilemma for the whole South Korean community. This figure is capable of making South Korea's economic growth skyrocket. Development is carried out everywhere, from city to village.

Problems arise. Park Chung-hee's leadership is known to be authoritarian. Park Chung-hee is fond of silencing student criticism. Those who criticize will be hunted down and kidnapped. However, that fact does not affect his title as the best president who has ever led South Korea.

This fact was presented when Park Chung-hee died because he was killed in 1979. The South Korean side mourned. His death then ended 17 years of his power to lead South Korea. In fact, Park Chung-hee's successor was not able to get through his achievements in building South Korea.

This condition made the people of South Korea miss their figure. Instead of continuing to wake up Park Chung-hee alive again, all the people of South Korea slowly shifted support to Park Chung-hee's son, Park Geun-hye.

The figure was once considered like a South Korean savior towards glory. The woman's figure is considered the answer to a series of South Korean problems. Among other things, the increasing unemployment rate, inequality in men's income, decreased birth rates, and regulated the role of large companies in South Korea.

This condition made him superior in the 2012 elections. He has also officially become the new President of South Korea in 2013.

If elected president defeats Moon Jae-in of the Democratic Union Party, the 60-year-old woman will face a myriad of challenges, both from the political and economic sectors. For example, the feud with North Korea's arch-enemy, the increasing unemployment rate, the decline in birth rates, and the role of big companies in South Korea's political arena.

However, Geun-hye's biggest challenge is the inequality of treatment for South Korean women. The World Economic Forum launched in a report earlier this year that South Korea turned out to occupy the 108th position of 135 countries in the world in gender equality. South Korea's position is one place below the United Arab Emirates and at the level above Kuwait, "explained Sita Planasari Aquadini in his writing in the Tempo newspaper entitled Park Geun-Hye Recording History (2012).

Park Geun-hye's presence as South Korean female president initially invited puja-puji. He is considered capable of solving all kinds of problems in South Korea. In fact, it was far from wild. He was involved in various scandals.

He is considered to have let his close friend Choi Soon-sil interfere in state affairs. Choi also used it to blackmail a giant company in South Korea. The study made around $70 million into Choi's nonprofit foundation.

Choi also took advantage of this closeness to be able to access all kinds of state secrets. Moreover, Choi can access speeches, even changing speeches. The people of South Korea were furious. Love turned into hatred. Park Geun-hye is considered despicable for being involved in extortion and corruption.

Park Geun-hye's impeachment plan blew in South Korean parliament. A poll was held at the end of 2016. As a result, 234 of the 300 members of the National Assembly chose to impeach Park Geun-hye.

The decision was followed up by the Constitutional Court. The institution only really impeached Park Geun-hye on March 10, 2017. The decision is proof that Park Geun-hye violates the South Korean constitution and law.

Chairman of the Supreme Court, Lee Jung-mi, began reading the verdict not long after 11 am. The president's actions greatly undermine the spirit of democracy and the rule of law. President Park Geun-hye has been dismissed. His actions betrayed people's trust. This is an intolerable gross violation of the law," Justin McCurry said in his article on The Guardian's website entitled Park Geun-hye: South Korean Court Removes President Over Scandal (2017).