KOREA MONTHLY

www.timhyung.com YOUR FAVOURITE NEWSPAPER Since 2017

SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT

IMPEACHED
In 2013, South Korea became the first
country to elect a female president, Park
Geun Hye. She won with a percentage of
votes of 51.6% and had a high approval
rating due to her principled North Korea
policy and constructive outcome from visits
to the United States and China. However, in
late October of 2016, investigations of
began into Park Geun Hyes relationship with
Choi Soon Sil, daughter of the late Church of
Eternal Life cult leader. Several news media
including JTBC and the Hankyoreh reported
that Choi, who has no official government
position, had access to confidential
documents and information for the
president, and acted as a close confidant for
the president. Choi and President Park's senior staffs including both Ahn Jong-bum and Jeong
Ho-sung have used their influence to extort W77.4 billion (~ $75M) from Korean chaebols
family-owned large business conglomerates and set up two culture and sports-related
foundations, Mir and K-sports foundations. Choi is also accused of having influenced Ewha
Womans University to change their admission criteria in order for her daughter Chung Yoo-ra

to be given a place there. On October 25, 2016, Park publicly admitted her close relationship
with Choi Soon Sil and her approval rating dropped to 1 to 3 percent. It was the worst
approval rating ever in South Korean history.

On March 5, Mauricio Mauricio Pochettino's men

defeated Everton by 3-2. Harry Kane successfully
second on the English Premier League table. However,
with teams performances because the amount of
decreased. His name couldnt be fined in last three
he had played only forty minutes in last three games.
this game, he showed us quite impressive
Tottenham was struggling against Wycombe
However after January, he started having difficult time.
flow and couldnt score in 630 minutes. The main
scored two goal and led Tottenham to stay
Son Heung Min doesnt feel comfortable
being in the starting line is dramatically
games on the starting lineup. Furthermore,
The last time he score was January 29. In
performances. He scored twice when
Wenderers and he led his team to 4-3 win.
Whenever he played, he cut the positive
reason could be Sons performances but
also could be formation that Tottenham tries to use. Usually, Mauricio Pochettino used to start 4-2-3-1
formation but now he prefer to use 3-4-3 formation. As a result, the time he plays for his team seems to
be less and less. Many experts expect that Mauricio Pochettino will give Son time to play on coming
game. Son Heung Min has to put his 200% effort to next game to impress his coach.