Timeline: The rise and fall of South Korea’s Park Geun-hye
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — The arrest of South Korea’s first female president marks a stunning fall for the scion of a powerful general who himself ruled the country during her teenage years and into her 20s.
Park Geun-hye was jailed Friday, three weeks after the constitutional Court stripped her of office over a corruption scandal. Prosecutors accuse her of colluding with a jailed confidante to amass an illicit fortune and allowing the friend to manipulate state affairs.
The memories of December 2012, when she convincingly won the presidency thanks to older voters who remembered her father as a hero who lifted a nation from war-torn poverty, couldn’t feel more remote.
A look at key developments in Park’s life and political career: