Park leaves palace in disgrace

Getting a ride back: Park (left car) escorted by special officers and other official cars leaving the presidential Blue House in Seoul. — AFP

SEOUL: Disgraced South Korean leader Park Geun-hye left the presidential Blue House, two days after a court dismissed her over a corruption scandal, bound for her private home and facing the possibility of prosecution and jail.

Park left the compound in a motorcade of fast-driving black cars, flanked by police motorbikes, after bidding farewell to staff, an official said yesterday.