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The Saturday protests were large, intergenerational and, in the main Seoul events, strikingly orderly. Organisers and police counted hundreds of thousands to millions across peak weekends; exact peaks remain a press-estimate band. The candles became the English visual. The legal work happened in the Assembly and at the Constitutional Court.
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Park Geun-hye / Choi Soon-sil scandal · paras 2
A separate cultural wound was the 2014 Sewol ferry disaster, already a crisis of Park's presidency. Protesters in 2016 tied the two: a government that had seemed absent in 2014 now looked captured by a private circle. Sewol is its own dossier in this atlas; here it is political atmosphere, not a second trial.
Park Geun-hye / Choi Soon-sil scandal · paras 1
The Saturday protests were large, intergenerational and, in the main Seoul events, strikingly orderly. Organisers and police counted hundreds of thousands to millions across peak weekends; exact peaks remain a press-estimate band. The candles became the English visual. The legal work happened in the Assembly and at the Constitutional Court.
Park Geun-hye / Choi Soon-sil scandal · paras 1
Criminal trials are a different track from impeachment. Park was convicted in 2018 of offences including bribery and coercion; the first instance term was 24 years, later modified. Choi was convicted on related counts. Moon's December 2021 pardon of Park, justified as national unity and health, reopened the accountability argument without erasing the convictions.
Park Geun-hye / Choi Soon-sil scandal · paras 1
The New York Times, the BBC, the Guardian and the Financial Times described 'candlelight protests' and, often, a 'candlelight revolution'. The word revolution was metaphorical: the army did not take Seoul. English editors reached for Watergate (a president felled by scandal) and for Rasputin (a mystic confidante), the second of which flattened Choi into an Orientalist stock type.
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Criminal trials are a different track from impeachment. Park was convicted in 2018 of offences including bribery and coercion; the first instance term was 24 years, later modified. Choi was convicted on related counts. Moon's December 2021 pardon of Park, justified as national unity and health, reopened the accountability argument without erasing the convictions.
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The New York Times, the BBC, the Guardian and the Financial Times described 'candlelight protests' and, often, a 'candlelight revolution'. The word revolution was metaphorical: the army did not take Seoul. English editors reached for Watergate (a president felled by scandal) and for Rasputin (a mystic confidante), the second of which flattened Choi into an Orientalist stock type.
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