国际英语资讯:韩国民众点蜡烛抗议总统丑闻_时事

国际英语资讯:韩国民众点蜡烛抗议总统丑闻

Public fury is centered on the president's presumable connivance or protection of Choi suspected of peddling undue influence for personal gains and meddling in government decisions behind the scenes.

Choi has been formally detained on charges of fraud and abuse of power as she allegedly pressured conglomerates into donating tens of millions of U.S. dollars to two noNPRofit foundations she actually controls.

Media reports speculated that Choi had accessed confidential presidential documents on diplomatic, defense and economic affairs on a daily basis to influence government policies.

The 60-year-old private citizen, who has no public position and security clearance, allegedly allowed her daughter to be granted special treatment in entrance to a prestigious university by using her close friendship with the first South Korean female leader.

"The Choi Soon-sil case is a complete nonsense. Park, who people elected as the president, transferred her sovereign power to a private person," said Seong Eun-joo, a junior high school student who attended the rally with two other fellow students in school uniforms.

The three female students also took to the streets to demonstrate against an attempt by the Park administration to approve a state-authored history textbook, which they expect 100 percent to beautify former military dictatorships for three decades that ended in late 1980s and the 1910-45 Japanese colonization of the Korean Peninsula.