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Latest news: A protest calling for President Park Geun-hye's resignation will be staged daily in downtown Seoul from Tuesday. The nonstop rally will continue through Nov. 12.
Organizers, mostly progressive civic groups, said the candlelight vigil-style protest will begin at Cheonggye Plaza from 7 p.m. They said a large-scale protest is planned on Nov. 5 and Nov. 12, which will call for Park's resignation and a thorough investigation of the Choi Soon-sil scandal.
On top of this, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, one of the biggest umbrella unions here, said it will hold an emergency meeting Wednesday to discuss its own demand for Park's resignation...(source: Korea Times, 11.1)
The Park(Guen-hye/PGH) administration is imploding as it loses its legitimacy... This is not a government on the verge of collapsing; the collapse has already begun!(Hankyoreh,10.31)
(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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☞ Thousands of protesters call for president to resign (Guardian, 10.29)
☞ “박근혜는 퇴진하라!” (KCTU report in Korean, 10.29)
☞ Artists to join anti-President rally (Korea Times, 10.30)
A large scale rally is set to be held at Cheonggye Plaza on Saturday evening, to press the President to step down and to demand the investigation authorities get to the bottom of Choi's alleged meddling in state affairs. Organizers expect about 200,000 participants.(Korea Times, 10.27)
On the evening of October 29, two thousand people are expected to gather at Cheonggye Square in Jongno-gu, Seoul to take part in a candlelight vigil/29일 저녁엔 서울 종로구 청계광장에서 2000명이 모이는 촛불집회가 예정돼 있다.(Kyunghyang Shinmun, 10.27)
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☞ Big anti-Park rally expected Saturday (K. Herald, 10.28)
[10.24] Activists have their heads shaved(by KCTU members!!)...
...to protest the police's move to conduct an autopsy on the deceased farmer Baek Nam-ki, at the Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul. Baek collapsed after being hit by a police water cannon last year and died recently after being in a coma for 10 months. The warrant to conduct the autopsy expires tomorrow...(related report: "Ordinary Koreans stage sit-in to protect deceased farmer’s body", K. Herald, 10.24)
Today's activities of resistance in central Seoul:
Solidarity march(performing orthodox Buddhist-style prostration) to guard Baek Nam-ki...(KCTU's report you'll get here)
S. Korean Police attempted today in the morning(KST) to forcibly execute a warrant for the autopsy on Baek Nam-ki, the farmer who died last month following a 10-month coma after being knocked over by a police water cannon, but withdrew due to strong resistance from the bereaved family and civic group members...(more you can read here)
The conflict over the autopsy is expected to escalate until Tuesday when the warrant expires...(Korea Times, 10.23). But today's K. Herald reported the following: “We will not forcefully execute the warrant, should the bereaved family oppose (the autopsy),” Hong Wan-seon, commissioner of Seoul’s Jongno Police Station, said in a briefing at Seoul National University Hospital...
Anyway, here's tomorrow's struggle schedule:
[PS] Y'day afternoon in central Seoul: Hundreds of supporters, incl. civic activists and KCTU members, gathered near Gwanghwamun Square, demanding that government apologize for Baek Nam-ki's death and vowed to protect him(resp. his body) against any attempts by the prosecution/cops to carry out a forcibly executed autopsy...(here you'll get a detailed report in Korean)
Yesterday's Yonhap News Agency has been (possibly)somewhat confused! In the afternoon(16:20KST) it published the following "photo report"...
...a short while later(17:48KST) the int'l 'audience' got that:
But in reality... The strike by the Korean Railway Workers' Union/KRWU(here you'll get KRWU's complete strike diary) is still going on!!
Y'day afternoon in central Seoul: Thousands of KRWU members joined KCTU's rally to protest the planned "labour reform" and demanded the END of the PGH(박근혜) REGIME...
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