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South Korea's Park makes rare public appearance amid scandal
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People take part in a rally calling for President Park Geun-hye to step down in central Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2016. (Pool Photo via AP/Kim Hong-Ji)
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outh Korea's president has visited a rural market in her first public appearance out among her citizens since a huge political scandal exploded in October.
Park Geun-hye's visit to the market in the southeastern city of Daeju on Thursday comes as her opponents are squabbling over whether and when to impeach her after she made a conditional resignation offer this week.
The visits was also made just before police detained a man suspected of setting fire to the birthplace of Park's late dictator father in the nearby city of Gumi.
(Read also: South Korean police say man burns late dictator's home)
Park Geun-hye's office says she visited the market to review a recent fire, which destroyed hundreds of shops there.
Daegu is Park's political home turf where she was elected as a national lawmaker four times before becoming president in 2013.
