Whether or not South Korea’s president can weather one of the biggest political storms the country has seen in recent years remains to be seen. But what is clear is that the scandal about how a confidante with no official public role has had ousized influence over Park Geun-hye’s administration — and made sizable personal […]
Author Archives: Shihoko Goto
Shihoko Goto is the senior Northeast Asia associate at the Woodrow Wilson Center's Asia Program, where she is responsible for research, programming, and publications on Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. She is also a contributing editor to The Globalist, and a fellow of the Mansfield Foundation/Japan Foundation U.S.-Japan Network for the Future for 2014 to 2016.