Park Geun-hye's impeachment trial starts in Seoul

Park is accused of colluding with a friend to pressure businesses to make contributions to her policy initiatives.

South Korea's Constitutional Court has begun to hear oral arguments in the impeachment trial of President Park Geun-hye, who lawmakers voted to remove over a corruption scandal that saw millions of people protest over the last several months.
Park's lawyers and lawmakers, who serve as prosecutors in the trial, traded pointed arguments on Thursday on the validity of accusations that she colluded with a confidante to extort money and favours from companies and allowed the friend to unlawfully interfere with government affairs.