S Korean court sentences ex-President Park to 24 years in prison

Target of angers of Korean people is now directed to their own politicians - digging scandals of the ex presidents. This is their usual practices. Glad their arms changing from Japan.

24 years in jail! What a massive fall from power

That's insane - 24 years???

A NHK commentator explained yesterday why such a thing repeatedly happens in Korea when presidents change. He said it is because in Korea, president has a strong power and when the president changes, he or she changes all the staffl. Korea is a very strong country of nepotism and president gather his or her friends around the president. There, grudges are created among those who were gotten rid of and they take revenge in the next power change.

Only feels like yesterday that I was in Seoul as the weekly protests that garnered more than 1 million SKs were going on.

24 years for bribery?? Dang hate to see what they charge for murder..

'Presidents of RoK has no good ending!' This is very profound.

Very much feels like its designed to target the party Park represented rather than the individual herself.

Its clearly party based political vengeance playing the long game.

As an outsider this to me seems terribly unfair and harsh. Why did she get more than Choi for example? And if an appeals court freed Samsung Group heir Jay Y. Lee, then it sounds as if Park Geun-hye should have played hardball too and got a decent lawyer.

Pity the same doesn't happen to Abe & cronies

So that's what holding leaders responsible looks like.

Much respect to South Korean government.

Now that is what being accountable is all about.

A lesson many other countries could use.

Ozziedesigner:

If what the previous commentator said about power change and arrests are true, I would not wish that political instability on anybody. It reminds me of when the previous king would die and a new one who wanted change was throned.

Target of angers of Korean people is now directed to their own politicians - digging scandals of the ex presidents. This is their usual practices.

@Schopenhauer - It's interesting that you seem to assume there is some sort of innate anger in the Korean people that needs to be directed somewhere. Are you saying it it unique to Koreans and that it doesn't exist among the Japanese, the Chinese, the Brits, the Americans, the Fijians, the Sri Lankans?

Have you met many Koreans? You might find they're just every day people like you and me, that you find in any country. Don't form your opinions on an entire country of people from news headlines..

Being a president in South Korea is exactly a road to jail.

Being a president in South Korea is exactly a road to jail.

No but corruption is.