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.<br />Kim Hyo-sun tells us more. <br /> 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.<br />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. <br /> The investigation also shows Park only left for the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters after Choi suggested she did so.<br />She arrived at the headquarters at around 5 p.m.,... some seven hours after the "golden time" for a rescue operation.<br />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. <br /> 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. <br />Three-hundred-four people, mostly high school students on a field trip, died in the disaster.<br />Kim Hyo-sun, Arirang News. <br />
