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(Possibly) the beginning of the end...

Y'day(10.29) evening/night in central Seoul: Thousands of citizens took to the streets in downtown Seoul on Saturday, demanding President Park Geun-hye(PGH) step down, in protest of an ongoing influence-peddling scandal surrounding her confidante. Groups, including the country's largest umbrella labor union, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), which had been at odds with the president on a host of issues in the past, jointly held a candlelight rally in Cheonggye Stream Square...(Yonhap, 10.29/here you can read an more detailed report in English, published in the S. Korean bourgeois media, here you'll get a lot of pics, depicting yesterday's rally, and finally here you can watch [LIVE] Angry citizens pour into street, calling for Park's resignation)

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