Prosecutors investigating former president Park Geun-hye's infamous "missing seven hours" during the 2014 Sewol-ho ferry sinking have found that she waited to get advice from her close confidante before holding the first emergency meeting on the disaster.
Kim Hyo-sun tells us more.
It's been found that former president Park Geun-hye consulted with her confidante Choi Soon-sil on how to deal with the sinking of the Sewol-ho ferry in April 2014.
Prosecutors,... striving to solve the so-called "seven-hour mystery" about what Park did while the ferry sank in waters off the nation's southwest coast,... have found that Choi was called into the presidential office and held a meeting with Park as well as her close aides.
The investigation also shows Park only left for the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters after Choi suggested she did so.
She arrived at the headquarters at around 5 p.m.,... some seven hours after the "golden time" for a rescue operation.
The prosecution was once again able to prove Choi's involvement in state affairs by tracking the credit card use and vehicle of Lee young-sun, a former administrative staff member at the Blue House,... whom prosecutors saw as the messenger between the former president and Choi.
On Wednesday,... prosecutors also indicted four of Park's aides,... including her former chief of staff Kim Ki-choon,... for fabricating the time log of the report on the sinking.
Three-hundred-four people, mostly high school students on a field trip, died in the disaster.
Kim Hyo-sun, Arirang News.