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Yesterday's Yonhap News Agency reported the following: South Koreans took to the streets Saturday to demand scandal-hit President Park Geun-hye's resignation and the arrest of corporate leaders over bribery charges, marking the 13th straight weekly rally. Braving cold weather amid snow flurries, hundreds of thousands of protesters held a candlelight vigil in central Seoul...

 

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...to call on Park to immediately resign and the Constitutional Court to speed up its review over the legality of Park's impeachment. With some 2,300 civic groups in attendance, demonstrators strongly called for the arrest of the heads of local conglomerates(aka chaebol), including Samsung Group, over bribery charges in connection to a corruption scandal involving Park and her long-time friend Choi Soon-sil...

Today's Hankyoreh wrote that: The 13th weekly candlelight demonstrations in central Seoul on Jan. 21 blazed with calls for chaebol reform(the demo's main motto: "Let's fight together to bring down the 'Chaebol Republic'!"). The day before the event, its organizers with the group Emergency Citizen Action for the Resignation of the Park Geun-hye Administration had been worried enough about falling participant numbers to issue an “appeal to see the candlelight revolution through.” But despite heavy snow and subzero temperatures, the organizers estimated around 320,000 attendees, far more than the estimated 130,000 who showed up the weekend before. The increase appeared to reflect a sense of concern among citizens after a court ruled on Jan. 19 to reject an arrest warrant request for Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong. Many participants stressed the need not just for a new administration, but also fundamental societal reforms - particularly to South Korea’s chaebol...(the full article you can read here)

 

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Here you'll get KCTU's report(in Korean), incl. lots of pics...

 

 

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