The more I read about Choi Soon-sil the more I realize she is basically President Park’s Huma Abedin, but she has no official government position. Fortunately for Huma Abedin if she ever has to show up for questioning by the FBI I doubt they would allow a media circus like this to occur:
Choi Soon-sil, who is suspected of having meddled in state affairs and peddled influence on various state projects by exploiting her decades-long friendship with President Park Geun-hye, passes through a huge group of reporters to enter the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office in Seoul for questioning on Oct. 31, 2016. (Yonhap)
The 60-year-old’s appeared at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office a little over a day after she returned from Europe, where she had been residing for nearly two months.
“I am so sorry,” she told reporters before entering the prosecutors’ office. “I have committed a deadly sin. Please forgive me.”
Her lawyer Lee Kyung-jae later said she was trying to express her feelings, adding her statements cannot be deemed as holding any legal meaning.
“She deeply regrets the fact that she caused such a huge confusion,” he told reporters in front of the Seoul High Prosecutors’ Office. “She thinks she should receive due punishment if there was any (violation of law).”
As she got out of a black sedan in black clothes, covering her face with a black hat and a scarf, some hundreds of reporters who had been waiting since early morning surrounded her. It was the first time she appeared in public after the scandal surfaced.
Some citizens engaged in surprise protests as she showed up, chanting and picketing “Down with Park Geun-hye!” and “Arrest Choi Soon-sil!” [Yonhap]
