Harvard University students call for Park’s resignation

Published : Nov 12, 2016 - 12:26 Updated : Nov 12, 2016 - 20:12

A group of students from Harvard University in Massachusetts called on President Park Geun-hye to resign, denouncing Park over the scandal involving her close confidante.

“The Park administration has utterly lost the people’s trust in its moral legitimacy and competence to govern. … we demand that President Park immediately step away from state affairs,” a total of 193 Korean Students and Scholars of Harvard University said in a statement released Saturday.

“Having completely failed the trust of the people, this administration has entirely lost its ability to govern and the damage has fallen squarely on the people. …the President has lost all legitimacy as the head of state,” students said.

Korean students and scholars of Harvard University

Students criticized Park for taking “the power committed to her by the people in exercise of their sovereignty and ceded it to illegitimate individuals, privatizing that which belongs to the public,” as well as "rejecting the most fundamental principles of constitution."

They also urged the National Assembly to abandon partisan politics and commit to a total effort towards resolving the current crisis.

Since October, student bodies at major universities across the country released statements slamming the president and her confidente Choi Soon-sil.

While the embattled president has remained silent since her second apology last week, calls continued to grow for Park to take responsibility for the state crisis, with some even demanding her to step down.

By Kim Da-sol (ddd@heraldcorp.com)