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The Taegeukgi rallies (Korean: 태극기 집회; Hanja: 太極旗集會), named for the flag Taegeukgi and also known as the Pro-Park rallies (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. The Taegeukgi protestors or the Taegeukgi crowds (태극기 부대) got their names because they vehemently swung or wore South Korean flag (the Taegeukgi) during rallies.
On October 26, 2016, the first candlelight protest was held, demanding Park to step down from office. 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. 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.
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. To them, what they were doing was for the protection of Jayuminjujuui (자유민주주의; 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. The Financial Times compared them to the 2021 United States Capitol attack.
The Taegeukgi protests have been remarked as the first massive political assembly by the conservative camp after the democratization of South Korea.
Taegeukgi crowds do not support Park's policy or political vision.
In the 2012 South Korean presidential election, Park won with a majority 51.55% of votes. Park's party, the Liberty Korea Party, had leaned toward the conservative end of the political spectrum so this attracted many conservative voters. However, when Park's change in political corruption was uncovered, 85% of Korean citizens agreed to impeach her from the presidency. In addition to this, a large number of conservatives joined the pro-impeachment rallies for a long period of time, which proved that not only the liberals, but also a majority of conservative supporters of Park turned against her.
Academic Chae jangsoo analyzes that Park is considered among Taegeukgi protestors as a projection of the past that is positively perceived by the Taegeukgi protestors themselves. Most of the key participants of the rallies were the generation that played a key role during the time of industrialization and high economic development of South Korea under the former dictator Park Chung Hee.
From demonstrations against Japanese imperial rule to the democratization movement in 1987, waving Taegeukgi elicited patriotism and strong resistance to unjust persecution. However, as Taegeukgi protestors began to vehemently swing Taegeukgi, it is more and more becoming a symbol for the extreme right-wing activism.
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Taegukgi rallies
The Taegeukgi rallies (Korean: 태극기 집회; Hanja: 太極旗集會), named for the flag Taegeukgi and also known as the Pro-Park rallies (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. The Taegeukgi protestors or the Taegeukgi crowds (태극기 부대) got their names because they vehemently swung or wore South Korean flag (the Taegeukgi) during rallies.
On October 26, 2016, the first candlelight protest was held, demanding Park to step down from office. 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. 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.
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. To them, what they were doing was for the protection of Jayuminjujuui (자유민주주의; 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. The Financial Times compared them to the 2021 United States Capitol attack.
The Taegeukgi protests have been remarked as the first massive political assembly by the conservative camp after the democratization of South Korea.
Taegeukgi crowds do not support Park's policy or political vision.
In the 2012 South Korean presidential election, Park won with a majority 51.55% of votes. Park's party, the Liberty Korea Party, had leaned toward the conservative end of the political spectrum so this attracted many conservative voters. However, when Park's change in political corruption was uncovered, 85% of Korean citizens agreed to impeach her from the presidency. In addition to this, a large number of conservatives joined the pro-impeachment rallies for a long period of time, which proved that not only the liberals, but also a majority of conservative supporters of Park turned against her.
Academic Chae jangsoo analyzes that Park is considered among Taegeukgi protestors as a projection of the past that is positively perceived by the Taegeukgi protestors themselves. Most of the key participants of the rallies were the generation that played a key role during the time of industrialization and high economic development of South Korea under the former dictator Park Chung Hee.
From demonstrations against Japanese imperial rule to the democratization movement in 1987, waving Taegeukgi elicited patriotism and strong resistance to unjust persecution. However, as Taegeukgi protestors began to vehemently swing Taegeukgi, it is more and more becoming a symbol for the extreme right-wing activism.
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