Philip Nichols and Richard Dasher discuss the impacts of the impeachment trial of the president of South Korea.

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South Korea’s president, Park Geun-hye, is refusing to attend her impeachment trial. Park was accused of conspiring with a friend to extort some $69 million from businesses in exchange for political favors. In a recent interview on the Knowledge at Wharton show, part of Wharton Business Radio on SiriusXM channel 111, Wharton legal studies and business ethics professor Philip Nichols and Richard Dasher, director of Stanford University’s U.S.-Asia Technology Management Center, discussed the impact of the impeachment on South Korea’s corporations. (Listen to the podcast at the top of this page.)

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