Organizers hope for MILLION people at anti-Park rally
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About 200,000 protesters gathered at Gwanghwamun Square last Saturday to demonstrate against President Park Geun-hye, echoing her resignation. / Yonhap
By Lee Han-soo
The anti-president rally will continue Saturday after more than 200,000 people rallied at Gwanghwamun Plaza in downtown Seoul last week.
President Park Geun-hye is under immense public pressure to resign after an influence-peddling scandal involving confidant Choi Soon-sil was revealed.
Organizers hope to attract more than a million people to this week’s rally, which will include more than 1,500 civic groups.
“If one person speaks out it might mean nothing,” a rally organizer told Joongang Ilbo, a Korean news outlet. “But if 100,000 people gather it becomes public sentiment. And if a million gather it becomes the will of the people.”
Last week thousands of people, including expats living in Korea, took to the streets for the anti-Park rally.
Police sent some 20,000 riot police to control the protest and prevent angry demonstrators from making their way to the presidential office, Cheong Wa Dae, which is just a few kilometers from the plaza. But the rally was peaceful.