SOUTH KOREA’S parliament voted yesterday to impeach President Park Geun Hye over the scandal around her arrested confidant.

With at least 62 members of Ms Park’s right-wing Saenuri Party siding with the opposition — almost twice as many as expected — MPs voted 234 to 56 for the motion.

A super-majority of 200 in the 300-seat National Assembly was required for impeachment. There were nine invalid votes and abstentions and one MP was unaccounted for.