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ǎ Social Issue

Candlelight Rally –

An Opportunity to Show a Mutual Sense of Citizenship

On November 12th, a candlelight rally in It led to his resignation of him and the transition

Gwanghwamun Plaza was held. It was the biggest to the Second Republic of South Korea. So the
scale of candlelight rallies and to take part in this result of this rally was that South Korea adopted a
rally many people from rural areas or even Jeju parliamentary system to remove power from the
Island came to Seoul. All ages, even babies, took office of the president. Taking this opportunity,
part in this demonstration. It was special because, nowadays the court permitted the parade.
elementary school students and high school This rally was very meaningful like the April
students were exercising their freedom of speech revolution. Because, almost 10million people
became the talk of the town. The content of the participated in this president resignation rally to
speech was about ‘President Park’s resignation’. show their sense of citizenship. Police officers,

He expressly pointed out the mistake that she made the public prosecutor general allowed having
and he copied her way of speaking to be sarcastic. demonstration parade, so far fortunately, though,
This speech has established the seriousness of the the demonstrations have remained generally
problem, and promoting people to have a resolute peaceful. It’s very important that citizen’s
will. contribute to advancing the country by uniting
But, seriously, such a situation already happened. themselves. Hopefully this opportunity produce
In Korea, in 1960, the April 19 revolution was good results.

held because citizen wanted that revolution
create political and social changes in the world. Photo References : http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=
Revolution means a complete change in the way LSD&mid=sec&sid1=102&oid=277&aid=0003863683
http://cafe.naver.com/buzzga/4949
of doing things. It was led by labor and student
groups like this, which overthrew the autocratic No, Hyunjin (2-3)
First Republic of South Korea under President Lee. pw1522@naver.com

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