If Park now faces investigation and trial she will likely have to go to the Seoul Detention Centre, a facility on the outskirts of the city where arrested politicians and corporate chiefs are usually held
When impeached president Park Geun-hye leaves South Korea’s presidential palace she will go back to her house in Seoul’s luxury Gangnam district surrounded by a high wall and bamboo. She may have to move again, next time to a cramped jail cell. South Korea’s to impeach Park, 65, over a corruption scandal, ousting her from office and capping months of political uncertainty and protests in Asia’s fourth-largest economy. Shielded from prosecution while in office, Park could face criminal charges, the possibility of detention pending trial, and finally a jail sentence. One former president spent almost two years in detention in the 1990s awaiting his trial. It is not the first time Park has had to leave the Blue House, a presidential palace compound of traditional-style buildings at the foot of a rocky hill in central Seoul. In 1979, after a nine-day funeral following the assassination of her father, President Park Chung-hee, the young Park left the Blue House with her siblings for a family home. after her mother was shot and killed in an earlier failed assassination attempt on her father. Park’s private home is a detached, two-storey house on a quiet back street in Seoul’s affluent Gangnam district, where shops and apartment buildings have French names, and luxury car showrooms line avenues. The house is surrounded by a high red-brick wall topped with barbed wire and CCTV cameras.
