Seoul: South Korea lawmakers kicked off an unprecedented series of hearings yesterday that will grill the country’s business elite over a corruption scandal engulfing impeachment-threatened President Park Geun-Hye.
The powerful heads of family-run conglomerates, or chaebols, such as Samsung and Hyundai, will be among those testifying before a parliamentary investigation ahead of an impeachment vote to remove the president on Friday.
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