Unease with S. KOREAN president grows - (Washington Post)
June 11, 2008 – 11:51 pmSEOUL — As tens of thousands of people waved candles in central Seoul and other South Korean cities, a month of street demonstrations against the purported danger of U.S. beef broadened Tuesday night into a populist backlash against the country’s fledgling president, Lee Myung-bak.
Lee’s entire cabinet offered early Tuesday to resign to take responsibility for the beef dispute and to take heat off the president, who has been in office less than four months.
The resignation offer, which Lee has not yet acted on, came in anticipation of what was by far the biggest night of demonstrations against his government.
The crowd in Seoul, chanting “Out with President Lee” and wearing stickers that made Lee look like a rat, included office workers, mothers and fathers with children, college students and members of labor groups.
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