Participants hold candles at the fourth public demonstration calling for an investigation into the Choi Sun-sil scandal and President Park Geun-hye’s resignation
The million candles are growing even stronger. The beacon that began burning on Seoul’s Gwanghwamun Square has now spread nationwide: 600,000 in Seoul, 100,000 in Busan, 40,000 in Gwangju, 25,000 in South Gyeongsang Province, 25,000 in Daegu, 15,000 in South Jeolla Province, 12,000 in Gangwon Province. Well over a million candles were lit in 70 locations nationwide on the evening of Nov. 19 as part of the fourth citizens action to demand President Park Geun-hye’s resignation. The public’s anger burned even more intensely in response to Park’s decision to go on the counteroffensive after the million-candle display on Nov. 12. The cries of the far-right and conservative groups trying to save her were drowned out by the booming shouts of a million people.The tens of thousands of candles pointed at the Blue House from nearby Gyeongbok Palace Metro Station were a stern rebuke to the foolish and reckless antics of a President who has already been erased in the holders’ minds.
at Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul
“President Park Geun-hye says we’ve begun a long-term occupation at the Blue House,” said one member of the public at a free speaking event. “They say ‘candles go out when the wind blows’? I don’t know about that. They do say President Park likes to watch soap operas, but miniseries don’t end after four or five episodes. Our candles will keep being lit - ten times, twenty times, as long as it takes for the President to come to her senses.”
