The empty days of S Korea's impeached president

Seoul

SOUTH Korea's presidential Blue House has been something of a family home for Park Geun-hye, but the luxury residence has now become a place of solitary confinement for the impeached, isolated leader.

Ms Park has twice called the Blue House home: first as the daughter of late military strongman Park Chung-Hee and then as president herself - a cumulative period of 20 years.

Currently president in nothing but name and with no official duties to perform, Ms Park faces a months-long empty schedule within the walls of the complex as she waits for the final act of her impeachment drama to play out.

The only regular encroachment from outside is the deafening chanting of hundreds of thousands of protestors who have taken to the …