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‘Shadowy’ doctors visited SK president
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SOUTH Korea’s embattled president was visited by “shadowy” doctors who injected her with human placenta extract, a parliamentary inquiry into a growing corruption scandal heard yesterday.
The ongoing, two-month hearing is seeking to get to the bottom of a scandal that triggered mass nationwide protests and led to lawmakers voting to impeach Park Geun-hye last Friday.
Park stands accused of colluding with her longtime friend Choi Soon-sil to strong arm donations from large companies worth tens of millions of dollars.
The scandal raised questions as to what extent the friend influenced the president’s personal life, as it emerged that Park had sought treatment from doctors who were not part of her official medical staff but had ties with Choi.
The two doctors — who treated Choi for years — testified that they had visited Park at her residence multiple times, often without the presence or knowledge of the presidential medical team.
One of them said he had given Park a series of injections containing human placenta extracts and vitamins, widely used as an anti-ageing treatment or for detoxification in South Korea.
He later became a member of the presidential medical team.
The other doctor, who runs a plastic surgery clinic in the affluent Seoul district of Gangnam, testified that he had visited Park multiple times since 2013 to handle her “skin troubles.”
He however denied that he had performed cosmetic procedures on Park.
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