Moon rising? South Korea presidential hopeful quietly takes stage

[WorldNews]

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By James Pearson SEOUL (Reuters) - As hundreds of thousands of South Koreans poured into the streets every weekend for two months to call for President Park Geun-hye to resign, the opposition's leading contender to replace her appeared reluctant to seize the moment. Like many on the left, he calls for sweeping reform of the chaebol - the big conglomerates that dominate the economy and have been at the heart of the current political crisis - calling them a "source of unfairness" in South Korea. "The people who are angry in Korea want regime change, and the most realistic option and most probable person to do that is Moon Jae-in," Yang Jung-chul, a close aide to Moon, told Reuters.

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