Korea president’s office bought 360 Viagra pills

On Tuesday, two members of Park’s party announced plans to defect and back impeachment.

Ms Park has never married and has no known partner. “Rather, we will prepare for the planned impartial independent counsel”.

The presidential Blue House bought 364 pills in December, including 60 blue Viagra pills and the rest a generic version of the drug, according to the Democratic Party MP, Kim Sang Hee. “The special investigation headquarters will continue to push for an investigation of the president based on this judgment”.

At a party meeting on November 17, Lee Jung-hyun, head of a pro-Park faction within Saenuri, said, “It is not a court based on the constitution and law, but a people’s court that is stirring up people to bring down a person vested with the president’s leadership and authority by the constitution”.

Officials at Samsung Group and National Pension Service confirmed investigators visited their offices in Seoul.

The scandal surrounding President Park Geun-hye has now left her office defending the purchase of hundreds of erectile dysfunction pills. With Park showing no sign of going voluntarily, the opposition has come under pressure to take a more assertive stance, but is wary of the political dangers involved. He has said Park, who seemed poised to testify for prosecutors last week, is no longer willing to cooperate with the investigation – for now.

Park is now the first president in Korean history to face a criminal investigation as a primary suspect.

The prosecutors’ announcement provides Park’s liberal rivals and dissidents in her own conservative ruling party with a real legal path to parliamentary impeachment. Han Gwang-ok, the presidential chief of staff, has held meetings with senior presidential secretaries to discuss what the presidential response should be.

In a televised apology earlier this month, Park spoke of her “lonely” life as president, and acknowledged she had been “careless” and over-trusting in her relationship with Choi.

Choi and and former presidential aide An Chong Bum were indicted on Sunday and charged with abuse of power, in a major blow to the president’s fight for political survival.

In a scandal which has engulfed the presidency, Ms Park and Ms Choi are accused of colluding to coerce local firms to donate tens of millions of dollars to dubious non-profit foundations controlled by Ms Choi.

“I think Park clearly thinks that she can ride it out”, says David Kang, who heads the Korea Studies Institute at the University of Southern California. The Constitutional Court will then deliberate the legality of the impeachment in a process that can take up to six months.

The impeachment of South Korea’s embattled President Park Guen-Hye in a snowballing corruption case has inched closer as opposition parties chose to make a push for it. Park has immunity, but can be investigated.