SEOUL, Nov. 19 -- Almost one million South Koreans marched on Saturday night to demand the resignation of President Park Geun-hye over her biggest political scandal since she took office in February 2013.
Organizers said about 600,000 protesters took to the streets in central Seoul. It was half of last Saturday's rally in size that drew over 1.3 million and surpassed the June 1987 protest against then military dictatorship.
Instead of joining the Seoul demonstration as seen a week earlier, residents outside the capital city chose to hold separate rallies in their respective hometowns.
According to the estimate by organizers composed of about 1,500 civic groups, some 350,000 people held candlelight vigils in around 70 locations across the country.
This Saturday was the fourth protest rally since the scandal involving President Park and her decades-long confidente burst into a fit of rage last month.
Choi Soon-sil, whose friendship with Park dates back to the 1970s, and two former presidential secretaries are scheduled to be indicted by prosecutors on Sunday. Choi is suspected of interfering state affairs behind the scenes.
Public alienation from the Park administration was especially evident in the country's southeast regions, which are traditionally a political home turf for Park and her ruling Saenuri Party. The regions presented multiple election victories to them since Park entered the political sphere in 1998.
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