All eyes were on Seoul’s presidential Blue House Saturday as South Koreans awaited ex-president Park Geun-Hye’s reaction to her impeachment and preparations to move into her private residence.
SEOUL: All eyes were on Seoul’s presidential Blue House Saturday (Mar 11) as South Koreans awaited ex-president Park Geun-Hye’s reaction to her impeachment and preparations to move into her private residence.
News reports said Park was watching TV alone in her private presidential room Friday when the Constitutional Court announced her dismissal live on air.
An incredulous Park immediately phoned her aides to confirm the verdict, the Chosun Ilbo daily said.
Her aides said Park had no immediate plans to issue a statement on whether she accepts the court decision and on her future course of action.
“The president was apparently stunned at the ruling. She looked dejected”, an unidentified aide was quoted as saying by the daily.
“She wants to keep to herself for a while”, he added.
Park will leave the Blue House only after her private house in prosperous southern Seoul is repaired and cleaned to accommodate her and her security detail.
