The following podcast contains explicit language.

It's Wednesday, March 15, 2017 from slate,

it's the gist I'm Mike Pasca.

President Park Gyun-hye has been removed from office

in South Korea, impeached, asked to exit the blue house.

That request came from her country.

What she leaves behind is a legacy of deceit,

disappointment, forget those abstractions, puppies.

The Korean alliance for the prevention of cruelty to animals

accused Park of animal abandonment

for leaving her jondo dogs to adults and their seven puppies.

The pups are now considered too young

to be separated from the mother.

And a spokesman for the blue house said

that Park showed no concern for those adorable little vestiges

of national shame.

So I have looked at the office of the president of South Korea.

There've been 14 presidents, and things have not gone well.

Perhaps South Korea escapes our notice

as a dysfunctional country,

especially when it comes to the chief executive.

I mean, they have had one president who want a Nobel prize,

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