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Last night(11.12, KST23:20) Yonhap News reported the following: Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in Seoul on Saturday, in numbers not seen in decades, for the latest massive rally to demand President Park Geun-hye's resignation over the growing scandal involving her confidante. Over 1 million people joined the candlelight rally...

...at Gwanghwamun Plaza in downtown Seoul as of 7:30 p.m., according to organizers...(more you can read here, here you you'll get Hankyoreh's detailed report and here you can watch TV report, depicting almost 12 hours of yesterday's protest rallies)

Related reports in the S. Korean bourgeois press:
☞ Anti-gov't rally in Seoul largest in nearly 30 years (JoongAng Ilbo, 11.12)
☞ Korea raises its voice (Korea Herald, 11.13)
☞ Anti-gov't rally ends without major injuries or arrests (Yonhap, 11.13)
☞ Dozens of protesters detained, injured... (K. Times, 11.13, KST13:12)
☞ Peace is a new norm at protest (K. Times, 11.13, KST17:20)

Really, dear KCTU?? Please check out your own reports:

☞ 민중총궐기 1보
☞ 민중총궐기 2보
☞ 민중총궐기 3보
☞ 철도노조 1만 공공운수 4만 민주노총...

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Up to half a million people are expected to take to the streets in central Seoul, Saturday, in the largest-ever rally against President Park Geun-hye... The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), the country's second-largest umbrella labor union and one of the rally organizers, said it expects the number to be 1 million at best...(K. Times, 11.10)

Related article:
☞ Anti-Park rallies Saturday may draw 1 million (JoongAng Ilbo, 11.11)

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No comment...

A totalitarian phony and deceitful dilettante has managed to get elected to the US presidency. Donald Trump is an epochal disaster that won't just change his vast country and its democracy for many years to come. The entire world will feel the effects of this aberration. Many thought it was a joke when Trump announced his candidacy last year. Go ahead, many thought, as long as it's fun for him -- and for us. That was almost one-and-a-half years ago, and today, nobody is laughing anymore. Now, a racist sexual predator, a pathological liar and an excitable egomaniac holds power in the United States -- a sickening outcome for all those who believe in democracy and human rights... (source: Die Zeit, German "liberal"-bourgeois news magazine)
 

Once again: No comment!!

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Next morning(11.5. KST), at the same place...

Related article:
☞ Concerned artists join hands for anti-President rally (K. Times, 11.6)

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Y'day(11.5) afternoon/evening in central Seoul(@Gwanghwamun): Nearly 200,000 angry citizens turned up for the anti-President rally, calling for the resignation of President Park Geun-hye to take responsibility for her longtime friend Choi Soon-sil's influence-peddling scandal...(source: K. Times, 11.6/here you'll get a detailed summary report in Korean, incl. lots of pics)

Related reports by KCTU and some of its affiliated branches:
☞ 항쟁 돌입, 사실상 박근혜의 임기는 끝났다 (노동과 세계, 11.5)
☞ 총파업 40일차 - 이게 나라냐! 분노의 20만개 촛불이 타오르다! (KRWU, 11.6)
☞ 11/5 광화문 광장에 모인 20만명 “박근혜 하야” 외쳐 (KHMU, 11.5)

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A large rally calling for President Park Geun-hye's resignation will be staged in central Seoul on Saturday. The protest, led by progressive civic groups, will be in Gwanghwamun Square, in downtown Seoul, from 4 p.m. Tens of thousands of people are expected to take part. An estimated 20,000 people participated in the first anti-Park rally last Saturday. Police expect the second rally will attract about 30,000 people, while organizers are forecasting a crowd of 100,000...(K. Times, 11.4)

After President Park Geun-hye’s mea culpa Friday, eyes are fixed on the upcoming rally in Seoul on Saturday for any sign of a shift in public sentiment toward the embattled leader. Police predict some 40,000 participants for the second major rally since the Choi Soon-sil scandal surfaced. It is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. in Gwanghwamun Square in central Seoul. The rally organizers -- an association of labor unions, student groups and civic organizations -- say nearly 100,000 people could turn up, larger than the first one which took place on Oct. 29... Police, while saying they would “flexibly” respond to protesters, decided to disapprove of the organizers’ plan to march across central Seoul after the rally, citing possible traffic disruption...(source: Korea Herald, 11.4)