SEOUL, South Korea — There were euphoric cheers from the crowd outside the National Assembly on Friday when its speaker announced the outcome: By 234 to 56, South Korean lawmakers had voted to impeach President Park Geun-hye for her role in a corruption scandal that has paralyzed the country for two months. Her powers have been suspended, and Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn has taken over as acting president.

The impeachment had been supported by an overwhelming majority of the electorate and long overdue. But it doesn’t solve South Korea’s endemic corruption problem. There is little sense that government officials high and low will suddenly clean up their act. Or that the other powerful parties to the scandal — some of South Korea’s major corporations — will suffer serious consequences, if accusations that they bribed the president and her friend prove true.

Since Ms. Park was first implicated in the scandal over connections to her longtime confidante, Choi Soon-sil, South Koreans have been stunned by the mountain of allegations against the duo. They include extortion, bribery, abuse of power, leaking classified documents and violating the Constitution.

Image President Park at a cabinet meeting on Friday. Credit... Getty Images

Ms. Park held firm though, even as her approval rating tumbled to the single digits. She repeatedly apologized to the nation, but never admitted to criminal wrongdoing. When prosecutors named her Choi Soon-sil’s criminal accomplice, her spokesman denounced the allegation as “nothing but a house of cards that ignored objective evidence.”