Organizers expect candlelight protests in
Seoul demanding the ouster of President Park Geun-hye over a massive
corruption scandal to swell to 1.5 million people this Saturday.
At a press conference in central Seoul on Wednesday, organizers put the nationwide figure at 2 million after an estimated 1 million took part last Saturday. Police are bracing for a rise in the numbers.
Even high-school students in the complacently wealthy Samseong-dong area of southern Seoul issued a statement criticizing the government and seeking the ouster of the president.
Supported by 70 percent of the student body, the statement spoke of youngsters' "despair and rage" at the alleged academic favors lavished on the daughter of Park's crony Choi Soon-sil, who is at the center of the scandal.
A group of professors from the establishment Seoul National University also plan to take part in this weekend's demonstration.
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2016/11/24/2016112401081.html
At a press conference in central Seoul on Wednesday, organizers put the nationwide figure at 2 million after an estimated 1 million took part last Saturday. Police are bracing for a rise in the numbers.
Even high-school students in the complacently wealthy Samseong-dong area of southern Seoul issued a statement criticizing the government and seeking the ouster of the president.
Supported by 70 percent of the student body, the statement spoke of youngsters' "despair and rage" at the alleged academic favors lavished on the daughter of Park's crony Choi Soon-sil, who is at the center of the scandal.
A group of professors from the establishment Seoul National University also plan to take part in this weekend's demonstration.
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2016/11/24/2016112401081.html
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