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Y'day(12.17) afternoon until late at night in central Seoul...

Hundreds of thousands of South Koreans held a massive rally to call for scandal-hit President Park Geun-hye to immediately step down and the Constitutional Court to promptly carry out its impeachment trial. Organized by some 1,500 civic groups, the rally marked the eighth of its kind, and the second since the National Assembly voted last Friday to impeach Park over a corruption and influence-peddling scandal involving her and her longtime friend Choi Soon-sil. As of 8:40 p.m., some 650,000 people gathered at Gwanghwamun Square to join the candlelight vigil... (source: K. Herald, 12.18)

Related reports in English you'll get here(by yesterday's [bourgeois]Korea Times), here(by today's Hankyoreh), and here(by Global Times/环球时报). Related reports in Korean you'll get here(by VoP), and here(by KCTU, incl. lots of pics).