- Title: File footage of South Korean President Park Geun-hye
- Date: 5th January 2017
- Summary: PROTESTERS DOING A MEXICAN WAVE WITH CANDLES Park faced mounting pressure to step down, as hundreds of thousands of demonstrators marched through the capital and gathered in downtown Seoul every weekend to demand her resignation. Her approval rating plunged to just 4 percent. SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (FILE - NOVEMBER 29, 2016) (REUTERS) PARK SPEAKING AT PODIUM AND JOURNALISTS TYPING AT NEWS CONFERENCE ROOM JOURNALISTS TYPING PARK SAYING (Korean): "I will leave to parliament everything about my future, including the shortening of my term." Park, who had apologised twice previously, on November 29 asked parliament to find a way for her to give up power and decide when she should step down amid an influence-peddling scandal. No South Korean president had failed to complete a term since the current democratic system was implemented in 1987.
- Embargoed: 20th January 2017 02:29
- Keywords: South Korea president Park Geun-hye political scandal impeachment
- Location: SEOUL, YANGGU, GANGWON PROVINCE, ANSAN, BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA/ OFF COAST OF SOUTH KOREA / PYONGYANG, CHOLSAN COUNTY, NORTH PYONGAN PROVINCE, NORTH KOREA
- City: SEOUL, YANGGU, GANGWON PROVINCE, ANSAN, BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA/ OFF COAST OF SOUTH KOREA / PYONGYANG, CHOLSAN COUNTY, NORTH PYONGAN PROVINCE, NORTH KOREA
- Country: South Korea
- Topics: Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA00P5XSZUBP
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
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