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SOUTH KOREA

Park to face key vote next week

South Korean opposition parties said on Friday they will hold a parliamentary impeachment vote on scandal-tainted President Park Geun-hye next week, while her own party remains undecided on whether to force her out of office. Park has offered to resign and asked Parliament to decide how and when she should step down but the opposition has rejected it as a delaying tactic to avoid impeachment.