S Korea braces for 'largest' protests against president

[Joshua Farrell]

Some two million people are expected to join nationwide protests in South Korea to demand the resignation of President Park Geun-hye, organisers say.

They estimate 1.5 million will gather in Seoul and 500,000 in other regions - in what would be largest rallies since the demonstrations began five week ago.

About 25,000 police are being deployed in the capital, local media report.

Ms Park is accused of allowing her friend, Choi Soon-sil, to manipulate power from behind the scenes.

The president has apologised twice on national television, but has so far resisted calls to resign.

The fallout from the scandal shows no sign of abating, with South Korea witnessing the largest protests since pro-democracy demonstrations of the 1980s.

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Another person in a high position, admitting to possible corruption. The S Korea President has been accused of trying to exhort companies for money.

 

[Jason76]

Her father was a right-wing dictator, hence all mass hatred from student protestors and the left. Possibly she's getting as much hate as the right-wing one who was in power during the US Beef Mad Cow Disease scare.

 

[Joshua Farrell]

Her father was a right-wing dictator, hence all mass hatred from student protestors and the left. Possibly she's getting as much hate as the right-wing one who was in power during the US Beef Mad Cow Disease scare.

I can see that.

In the meantime, I wonder why farmers are trying to take their big farming equipment into the bigger cities to block off traffic in protest.

 

[Jason76]

I can see that.

In the meantime, I wonder why farmers are trying to take their big farming equipment into the bigger cities to block off traffic in protest.

What I don't get it is how these people get elected in the first place. It seems like everyone hates them, or maybe that's just an illusion. Of course, there is probably a silent majority that likes them or they wouldn't get elected, to begin with, a situation sort of similar to the US. My guess is that yuppie Korean businessmen vote right-wing, but there must be a lot of them.

Anyhow, another nation's problems, unless they threaten the US, usually isn't my business.