The Marmot’s Hole

With massive anti-impeachment protests scheduled for today and controversy building over the legality of candlelight demonstrations in Gwanghwamun, the very busy Kimchee GI shot me an e-mail linking to the amendments to the protest and assembly law. If you happened to get wood from reading Korean legalese, click the link. If not, let me just take the liberty of cutting and pasting from the GI’s e-mail:

The timeframe change (Article 6) is interesting since it eliminates one organization “hogging” a location. The relaxing of the embassy ban is also interesting, but pretty specific in its use. I think this one is the clincher for Kwanghwamun: Paragraph (2) of Article 12 is amended to authorize the police superintendent to prohibit an assembly or demonstration on one of the main roads of the major cities as designated in the Implementing Decree if the demonstration is likely to cause severe traffic problems on the road or adjacent roads.

Thanks a lot, Charlie.