Koreans join Women's March against new US president

/Yonhap

By Ko Dong-hwan

Thousands of demonstrators took to the Seoul streets on Saturday to join Women’s March on Seoul, a global campaign that denounced new U.S. president Donald Trump for his derogatory remarks towards women.

Some 2,000 protesters, made up of locals and foreigners, marched near Gangnam Station in southern Seoul, demanding from the 45th American President “freedom, equality and respect right now.”

The demonstration came after Trump made discriminatory remarks against women in the run-up to the U.S. presidential election in November.

A local women’s right advocacy group organized the rally. They said they protest “against the discriminatory and disrespectful remarks” made by Trump during the campaign period and “stand here to send a strong message to the world on his inauguration day.”

Women’s March on Seoul took place in various cities across the world on the same day.

“Trump has been making trouble with his sexist comments, and I think our politicians are no different from him," Kim Sang-ae, 23, who took part in the march said, according to Yonhap news agency.

"I came here to voice that women also have voting rights."