South Korea's disgraced ex-president Park returns home after prison

South Korea's former President Park Geun-hye speaks to reporters as she leaves the Samsung Medical Center in Seoul, South Korea, March 24, 2022. REUTERS/ Heo Ran

SEOUL (Reuters) -Former South Korean President Park Geun-hye left hospital on Thursday three months after she was released from prison where she spent nearly five years following a conviction on corruption charges.

Park, 70, became the country's first democratically elected leader to be forced from office when the Constitutional Court upheld a parliament vote in 2017 to impeach her over a scandal that also landed the chiefs of two conglomerates, Samsung and Lotte, in jail.