South Korea's opposition parties have agreed to propose a motion to impeach President Park Geun-hye over an influence-peddling scandal and bring it to a vote on December 9th.

The three parties have a combined 165 seats in the 300-member parliament. They can bring the impeachment motion, but will need some members from Park's Saenuri Party to bring the vote to the two-thirds majority required to pass the bill.

And the opposition parties disagreed with the plan proposed by the ruling party earlier, that Park should step down in April next year. The opposition parties have urged Park to step down as soon as possible.