Social Affairs
Saturday’s anti-Park rally anticipated to be biggest in size
Nov. 10, 2016
Saturday’s anti-President Park Geun-hye rally in Seoul is likely to be the largest candlelight vigil ever to be held in South Korean history, police said Thursday, exceeding that of the 2008 anti-US beef uproar. Organizers -- a union of some 1,500 civic organizations and labor groups -- expect at least 500,000 participants, while police anticipate 160,000. Even by police projections, the upcoming rally would double the size of the anti-US beef protest, which police put at 80,000. At the time, o