South Korea: How candlelight protests impeached a president and created spaces for direct democracy

http://links.org.au/south-korea-park-impeachment-candlelight-protests-direct-democracy
Date Written:  2017-04-28
Publisher:  Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
Year Published:  2017
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX20736

At 9 am on March 10, 2017, people gathered in front of the Constitutional Court to await the court's ruling on whether to impeach South Korean president Park Geun-hye. Two hours before the verdict was read, those gathered chanted: "The Constitutional Court should uphold Park’s impeachment!"