Protest in South Korea for resignation of President

She also criticized the government-written history textbooks that Park’s administration has said it plans to issue for use in all middle and high schools starting next year.

Q: What is Park accused of?

Prosecutors have said Park colluded in a scheme to pressure the nation’s top businesses to donate tens of millions of dollars to foundations controlled by Choi.

“Opposition parties say they could launch a motion in the national assembly as early as Thursday”. Mr Moon was at Saturday’s protest, saying he wanted to send “a stern warning” to Ms Park and her party.

“The president can not cooperate with a face-to-face questioning on November 29”, said Park’s legal representative Yoo Yeong-ha in a statement.

If Park is ever questioned, it will be the first face-to-face questioning of a sitting president.

If Park is impeached, she’ll be immediately deprived of her presidential powers until the Constitutional Court can rule on her fate. Park spent a week to make a decision on their resignation letters, fueling speculation that she was trying to dissuade them from leaving. Former Saenuri chief Kim Moo-sung is campaigning to convince fellow party members to support Park’s impeachment. South Korea will have 60 days to elect a successor, with Hwang carrying out her duties in the meantime.

It’s hard to guess how the court would vote. But plenty of South Korean conservatives think Park should go. The event kicked off at 6 p.m. local time and over a million people marched again on the streets some two hours later.

“Will this stop Park and lead her down?”

South Korean students wearing masks, holding candles. That was said to violate an election law requiring the president to remain neutral. Many South Koreans were outraged at the systemic lapses that contributed to the sinking.

Q: Who, incidentally, is Choi Soon-sil?

Park is embroiled in a corruption scandal involving her long-time confidante Choi Soon-sil, who has been indicted on bribery charges.

Park has promised to submit herself to an expanding probe by prosecutors, as well as a separate investigation by an independent special prosecutor to be appointed by parliament.

She is set to leave office in February 2018 as she can not run in the presidential election in December next year.

One such song quoted from South Korea’s Constitution: “The Republic of Korea shall be a democratic republic”.