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| Date | October 31, 2016[1] ~present (7 years, 5 months, 3 weeks and 6 days) | ||
| Location | South Korea; All regions and other countries | ||
| Caused by | 2016-2017 South Korean protests, Impeachment of Park Geun-hye | ||
| Goals | Objections to the impeachment of Park Geun-hye and 2016–2017 South Korean protests, dismissal and rejection of Constitutional Court of Korea, invalidation of impeachment citation by the Constitutional Court, Park Geun-hye President Lottery, Park's release, National Assembly dissolution | ||
| Resulted in | Mountain Jae-in Presidential Movement | ||
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No known organized leadership
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| Death(s) | 4 people | ||
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The Taegeukgi rallies (Korean: 태극기 집회; Hanja: 太極旗集會; lit. Taegukgi rally), also known as the Pro-Park rallies (Korean: 친박집회), are ongoing rallies that initially started as a series of counter-candlelight rallies supporting the former president of South Korea Park Geun-hye in 2016 but now continuing with the aim of releasing Park.[14] The Taegeukgi protestors or the Taegeukgi crowds (Korean: 태극기 부대) got their names because they vehemently swung or wore South Korean flags (the Taegeukgi) during rallies.[15]
On October 26, 2016, the first candlelight protest was held, demanding Park to step down from office.[15] Since then, an estimated 18 million protesters over the course of 6 months gathered in Gwanghwamun Plaza to demand the resignation and impeachment of former president Park.[15] The demonstrations continued until Park was dismissed from presidency in March 2017, even after the Constitutional Court confirmed the National Assembly's call for impeachment. Public anger centered on Park's role in political corruption regarding her personal acquaintance, Choi Soon-sil, and her role in unlawfully intervening with state affairs and coercing conglomerates to contribute large sums of money to Choi's own foundation.[15]
Pro-Park advocates, also known as 'silver patriots' representing an older generation, believed anti-Park forces were the pro-North Korean sympathizers and manipulated by biased media.[16] To them, what they were doing was for the protection of Jayuminjujuui (Korean: 자유민주주의; Hanja: 自由民主主義; lit. "liberal democracy" or "free and democracy") that they think they had contributed to rescue from direct communist threats in the past.[16] The Financial Times compared them to the 2021 United States Capitol attack.[17]
- ^ 어버이연합 "태블릿PC입수 경위 공개하라"…JTBC 사옥 앞에서 집회. 매일경제. 2016-10-31.
- ^ 보수단체, 여의도에서 맞불 집회..700여명 참석. Yonhap News Agency.
- ^ >"More than 2 million take to streets calling for Park's resignation". 3 December 2016.
- ^ 새해 첫 보수단체 맞불집회, 시민들 반응 냉담.
- ^ [동영상]박근혜 탄핵반대측 집회 "250만" "130만" 오락가락…실제 현장 모습은?. 6 February 2017.
- ^ a b 경찰 "앞으로 탄핵 찬성·반대집회 자체추산 인원 비공개". 13 January 2017.
- ^ 탄기국 "500만 명 참석"..덴마크 인구가 광화문에?. Pressian.
- ^ 경찰, 촛불집회 대비 전국 3만 병력 배치…서울 2만5천. The Dong-a Ilbo. 2016-12-03. Retrieved 2016-12-28.[dead link]
- ^ 경찰, 세월호 1000일 추모 촛불 1만4720여명 투입.
- ^ 탄핵 찬반집회, 도심 곳곳에서 개최…경찰병력 1만4600명 배치.
- ^ 3·1절 촛불 vs 태극기 대규모 집회… 경찰, 경비병력 1만6천명 투입.
- ^ 4일 탄핵심판 선고 전 대규모 집회 '막판 총력전'.
- ^ 박사모 등 친박단체 '탄핵무효 총궐기' 집회 일제히 열려 "탄핵당일 사망자 장례도 겸해".
- ^ ""박근혜 석방" "탄핵 무효"…탄핵 2년 앞둔 주말 서울 곳곳서 '태극기 집회'". Chosun Ilbo. 2019-03-09.
- ^ a b c d Lee, Joonseong; Brown, Katherine E (1 March 2018). ""Make Korea with America Great Again": An Articulation and Assemblage of South Korean Extreme Right Practices". Communication, Culture and Critique. 11 (1): 53–66. doi:10.1093/ccc/tcx004. ISSN 1753-9129.
- ^ a b Lee, Hyunchool (2018). "Silver Generation's Counter-Movement in the Information Age: Korea's Pro-Park Rallies". Korea Observer (in Korean). 49 (3): 465–491. doi:10.29152/KOIKS.2018.49.3.465. ISSN 0023-3919. S2CID 159208168.
- ^ Park, S. Nathan. "It's Time for Justice, Not Healing".
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