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Overseas Koreans join protests against Park Geun-hye

Overseas Koreans join protests against Park Geun-hye

Koreans across the world held rallies to add their voices to the one million citizens gathered at Gwanghwamun, central Seoul, on Saturday (KST) demanding that President Park Geun-hye resign over a scandal involving longtime confidante Choi Soon-sil. Rallies were held simultaneously in 10 countries, including the United States, Germany, France, Australia, and Japan on Friday […]

Peace is a new norm at protest

Peace is a new norm at protest

Kim Se-jeong – The Korea Times Water cannons, iron bars, police and protesters beating each other up, bleeding people, walls of police officers in riot gear and so on used to be the common images of protests in Korea. That was nowhere to be found at Saturday’s rally against President Park Geun-hye, with approximately one million […]

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