By Ee Seungjae
Pastor Jeon Gwanghun appeared at a downtown rally, two days after a warrant against him for leading a disruptive previous [conservative] rally was dismissed. He addressed the crowd.
Parents of a school for blind children objected to another conservative previous march, citing the noise of conservative groups, stopped the march. A petition to the President’s residence calling for the dissolution of exceeded 200,000 signatures within a week.
Jeonreappeared at a rally calling for the resignation of President Mun Jaein and waved the Korean Taegeuk flag. He said: “The Korean Constitution did not redeem me. The leaders of the Republic of Korea, who have moved leftwards, are returning to the Constitution! What should we do with that guy Mun? He’s gone out of his mind.”
At the same time, a conservative group calling for the release of former President Bak Geunhye marched toward the Blue House, confronting parents of the Seoul Blind School, a school for the blind. Parents appealed for [protesters] to refrain from meetings around the Blue House, because students were unable to attend classes due to the noise. Bak Jaehan, Chairman of the Jongnogu district branch of the Federation for the Visually Impaired, said: “Now there is noise all the time – [we’re forced] to go and use the back streets all the time.”
Representative Pastor Kwang-Hoon Jeon, the Korean Christian Federation, and Cheong Wa Dae’s petition for dissolution of the Han Ki-gun received more than 200,000 signatures inside a week – meeting the threshold for an official response from the government.