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| Former President Park Geun-hye sits with investigators in a sedan running into the Seoul Detention Center in Uiwang, Gyeonggi Province, early Friday. The court accepted the prosecution's request to arrest her on multiple charges, including bribery, abuse of authority, coercion and leaking government secrets. / Korea Times photo by Choi Won-suk |
By Lee Han-soo
Ousted former President Park Geun-hye has spent eight weeks locked in a small cell with limited accommodation. Park reportedly reads an English-Korean dictionary, according a report by Korean cable TV network JTBC, which cited an anonymous detention center official.
"Detention facility guards are keeping a close eye on Park, who is using most of her time reading an English-Korean dictionary, except for meetings with her lawyer Yoo Young-ha," said the anonymous source.
Awaiting trial at a detention center in Uiwang, Gyeonggi Province, Park has cut off all outside information, refusing to watch TV news or read newspapers.
Her trial on bribery and corruption charges is scheduled to start Tuesday.
At the trial, Park will come face-to-face again with longtime friend Choi Soon-sil, the central figure in the presidential corruption scandal and Park's alleged influence-peddler.
Park faces 18 charges, including extortion, bribery and abuse of power that could send her to jail for life.
