End of 2019, End of Candlelight Revolution's Hope

As 2020 begins, the optimism that permeated South Korea in late 2016 and early 2017 seems but a distant memory. Three years ago, hundreds of thousands were holding peaceful weekly demonstrations [https://www.koreaexpose.com/top-five-sightings-anti-government-protests/] —popularly dubbed the “Candlelight Revolution” for the candle-carrying participants—against corruption on the part of then-president Park Geun-hye and her confidante Choi Soon-sil [https://www.koreaexpose.com/choi-soon-sil-gate-s