Dispatch from Yeouido: President Park Geun-hye Gets Impeached

The most spirited cries of the day came just after 4 pm. Teary friends shouted, embraced, threw their hands in the air. About a minute earlier, the boisterous music had been halted, and audio from the National Assembly was pumped in. In an flat tone of voice, the speaker announced that in a vote that wasn’t close — 234 in favor to 56 against — President Park Geun-hye had been impeached. After a couple of minutes of celebration, the music returned, a bouncy tune with a chorus that translates as