The Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office in in charge of investigation into the case has delivered to the presidential Blue House its request to investigate the scandal-plagued president on Tuesday or Wednesday. If realized, Park would become the first South Korean president to be investigated by prosecutors as incumbent leader.Under the country's constitution, a president is free from criminal indictment, but some of law experts claim a criminal investigation is possible if the indictment is suspended until the end of presidency.
Organizers said that about 1 million people turned out in Seoul, which was the largest mass rally in 30 years that was held at Saturday night to demand Park's immediate resignation and this rally was the biggest since the people protest against the military dictatorship in June, 1987.
To add in this news post, Choi Soon-sil, who is the longtime confidante of Park's, is alleged to have pressured big companies into donating 77.4 billion won (66.3 million U.S. dollars) to two nonprofit foundations she actually controls. Samsung transferred 28 billion euros (about 30 billion U.S. dollars) last year to a company in Germany co-owned by Choi and her 20-year-old daughter.
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