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Business Matters: Can South Korea's President Stay in Power?

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16/11/2016 GMT

Can South Korea's President Stay in Power?

BBC World Service - Business Matters, Can South Korea's President Stay in Power?

Will South Korea's president, Park Geun-Hye resign - or even be impeached?

Resignation or impeachment - there are some analysts in Seoul who see those as the only two options remaining to South Korea's president, Park Geun-Hye

South Korea's president, Park Geun-Hye has reportedly engaged legal representation in advance of questioning by prosecutors. She's at the centre of a political scandal that has engulfed her administration. We hear from Jasper Kim, founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Asia-Pacific Global Research Group. He's also a Professor at the Graduate School of International Studies at Ewha University in Seoul.

President Obama has been greeted by angry protests on his trip to Greece. Whilst meeting the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in Athens, the outgoing US President said world leaders need to pay heed to people's very real fears of economic dislocation and inequality in the midst of globalisation. 
Yanis Varoufakis was the Greek finance minister at the height of the crisis in 2015, we ask him how he sees the future of the Greek economy.

SeaWorld in San Diego, California, is planning to phase out its killer whale performances next year. But lots of spectators love them and they're rushing to get to the park in San Diego before that happens. Our second guest this hour, Andy Uhler from our sister programme, Marketplace visited the park to talk to some of the visitors.

Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau has arrived in Cuba for the start of his two day visit to Latin America. It's part of an effort to boost trade in the region. Will Grant, the BBC's correspondent in Cuba brings us the latest.

Why are Scandinavian nations so much better than anyone else at looking after their children? The so-called Nordic model has helped a high proportion of mothers get back into the workplace. But providing affordable, full-time care for every child between the age of one and five doesn't come cheap - and Denmark is feeling the economic strain, as the BBC's Marie Keyworth reports.

And we draw in some of the business headlines from elsewhere in the world, crossing to Sydney and the BBC's Phil Mercer.
(Picture description: Thousands of South Koreans took to the streets in the city center to demand President Park Geun-Hye to step down
Photo credit: Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)

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