Note: I apologize in advance for all the Korean names I will inevitably mangle here.

In this video we look at the rise and sudden fall of South Korea’s former President Park Geun-hye.

The daughter of a former dictator. She presented herself as a nostalgic icon the Korean people could trust and turn to. And she stayed popular despite a number of corruption scandals.

Then it all came tumbling down, really quickly. And in a really bizarre way.

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