In South Korea, Scandal Poses Challenge to Creating Olympic Buzz

As South Korea closes in on its one-year countdown to the 2018 Winter Olympics, the Game’s organizers look to focus attention on the country’s first Olympics in 30 years. They’re already competing with a bigger story – the political scandal that brought down President Park Geun-hye. Next week, South Korea’s Constitutional Court begins to review her impeachment by the National Assembly. The woman at the center of the scandal and Park’s old friend, Choi Soon-sil, is on trial over charges of...

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