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Former students at Danwon High School, who survived the sinking of the ferry Sewol, will have their voices heard at a candlelit protest against President Park Geun-hye, Saturday.
The rally organizers said Thursday that this year's first and the 11th rally altogether will commemorate the incident...
It is the first time for the surviving students to make a public appearance to tell their stories since the sinking took place on April 16, 2014, while some have appeared in individual media interviews.
"We will call for a thorough investigation of the Sewol disaster and mete out due punishment to those responsible," the organizers said at a press conference at the Seoul office of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU).
Marking the 1,000th day since the disaster, which falls on Jan. 9, the organizers will jointly host the rally with the relatives at 5:30 p.m. at Gwanghwamun Square. The surviving students and relatives of those who died will take the stage to criticize the government's inept response to the sinking...(source: Korea Times, 1.05)
Lawyers representing President Park Geun-hye said Thursday that protesters at the candlelit rallies did not represent the people because a North Korean sympathizer orchestrated the gatherings... Over the past 10 weeks, more than 10 million people have gathered to demand Park's resignation over an influence-peddling scandal involving her confidant Choi Soon-sil... "Protesters who gathered near Cheong Wa Dae with candles do not represent the people as a whole," they said. They alleged that the organizer of the candlelit rallies was a North Korea sympathizer. "The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions organized weekend rallies. And the composer of a song satirizing Park, which was sung during the rallies, was previously arrested for violating the National Security Law by praising former North Korea leader Kim Il-sung"...(source: Korea Times, 1.05)
If you've up-to-date info about the criminal activities of the subversive Bisang2016 Candlelit Gang, organized by KCTU and inspired by Kim Il-sung(himself!), please call...
And of course you'll be protected by the Prime Minister/acting "president" Hwang Kyo-ahn, the Culture Minister, the NIS, NPA etc...
Yesterday's Korea Times reported the following: The independent counsel team is looking into suspicions that the nation's spy agency was involved in the creation of a blacklist of artists critical of the government in its widening investigation of the scandal surrounding President Park Geun-hye and her confidant Choi Soon-sil.
Confiscated email and text message records showed that officials of the National Intelligence Service (NIS) were in contact with Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism officials regarding the blacklist of artists allegedly drawn up by Cheong Wa Dae to restrict their work.
The counsel team secured the records after raiding the offices and homes of ministry officials in Seoul and Sejong last month.
It also found evidence that NIS officials had frequently visited the ministry in Sejong. A ministry official told the team that he had been ordered to tell them about issues among artists' groups...(the full story you can read here)
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☞ Moon seeks to close spy agency's domestic division (Yonhap, 1.05)
Dear comrades! Keep your eyes peeled & don't trust "your" current "gov't"(黃정권)!
The acting head of state made it clear that the Park administration's plan to deploy a U.S. terminal high altitude area defense (THAAD) battery will remain unchanged...(K. Times, 12.21)
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Calls for the ouster of President Park Geun-hye continued to echo in the streets, on the last day of 2016, with 1 million protesters gathering in central Seoul.
The number of participants in Saturday night’s rally brought the cumulative number of people who have attended the protests since October to 10 million, according to rally organizers...
During the protest, rally-goers marched up to a point 100 meters from the presidential office of Cheong Wa Dae, the acting president’s office and the Constitutional Court, while demanding Park be punished and for a swift decision from the court.
A festive mood spread across the grounds as it was the last day of the year. Participants enjoyed cultural performances(an impressive example you'll get here) and events, including firecrackers and laser shows.
After the rally was over, a lot of the citizens remained to watch the symbolical New Year’s Eve bell-ringing ceremony at Bosingak, a large bell pavilion at Jongno in central Seoul to welcome the New Year...(source: Korea Herald, 1.01)
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Finally here you'll get KCTU's report in Korean, incl. lots of pics.
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