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Last Friday(8.15) afternoon in central Seoul: About 50,000(30,000 according to Hankyoreh/the cops counted just 12,000) people, among them also thousands of KCTU activists, rallied in front of the City Hall to show their solidarity with the bereaved families of the Sewol Ferry Disaster and called for an independent, transparent investigation of the sinking. Later on thousands of demonstrators wanted - as finally planned - to march to Cheongwadae. But just after some few hundred meters they were blocked for hours by large units of riot cops and threatened with water cannons(*). But while the "Pope Francis’s visit to South Korea is drawing the international media’s attention back to the Sewol ferry sinking"(Hankyoreh, 8.16), the S. Korean (bourgeois)English-language media didn't mention it(i.e. the mass rally) at all...

* Related reports, incl. lots of pics, you'll get here:
☞ 5만명 ‘세월호 범국민대회’, 청와대 행진...경찰 대치 (NewsCham, 8.15)
☞ 5만여명 운집한 서울광장…시민·유가족들 “끝까지 함께 하자” (VOP, 8.16)

☞ [8.15] 범국민대회... (PLN, 8.16)

☞ 세월호 특별법 제정 촉구 5만여 명 범국민대회 (KCTU, 8.16)