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South Korea’s president’s impeachment tarnishes family legacy

By FOSTER KLUG, Associated Press
Published: December 9, 2016, 7:20pm
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South Korean President Park Geun-hye adjusts a microphone during an emergency Cabinet meeting Friday in Seoul, South Korea.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye adjusts a microphone during an emergency Cabinet meeting Friday in Seoul, South Korea. (BAEK SUNG-RYUL/Yonhap) Photo Gallery

SEOUL, South Korea — Park Geun-hye could always rely on one unwavering gift throughout a political career that saw a triumphant return as South Korea’s first female president to the palatial Blue House where she’d lived as a girl: She enjoyed the reflected devotion, some might say worship, that half the country felt for her late dictator father.

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