heavy-hand #3
韓国の朴槿恵大統領が知人女性に機密文書などを流出させていた問題を受けて、ソウルで退任を求めるデモが起こりました。
Protesters in Seoul call for Park to resign
SEOUL (AP) — Thousands of South Koreans took to the streets of the capital on Saturday calling for increasingly unpopular President Park Geun-hye to step down over allegations that she let an old friend, the daughter of a religious cult leader, interfere in important state affairs.
The evening protest came after Park ordered 10 of her senior secretaries to resign over a scandal that is likely to deepen the president’s lame duck status ahead of next year’s election.
Holding candles and signs reading “Who’s the real president?” and “Park Geun-hye step down,” the protesters marched through downtown Seoul after holding a candlelight vigil near City Hall. Police estimated that about 12,000 people turned out for the biggest antigovernment demonstration in Seoul in months.
“Park has lost her authority as president and showed she doesn’t have the basic qualities to govern a country,” Lee Jae Myung, from the opposition Minjoo Party and the mayor of the city of Seongnam, told the protesters from a stage.
Park has been facing calls to reshuffle her office and Cabinet after she acknowledged on Tuesday that she provided longtime friend Choi Soon Sil drafts of her speeches for editing. Her televised apology sparked intense criticism about her mismanagement of national information and a heavy-handed leadership style that many see as lacking in transparency.
http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0003317193
今回取り上げるのは“heavy-hand”です。
LDOCEでは“taking too much action or extreme action, especially without thinking about other people’s feelings.”と定義されていました。
『ジーニアス英和辞典』（第五版、大修館書店）では「配慮の欠けた処遇、荒っぽいやり方」とあり、heavyだけの項目をみると「（海が）荒れた」といった語義があることもわかりました。
力が強すぎて、コントロールが効かなくなり、荒っぽくなってしまうといった感じでしょうか。
デモで集まった人々は手にライトなどを持つ「ろうそくデモ」とよばれる形式で、2008年に米国産輸入再販反対のデモが日没後に行われ、ろうそくに火を灯して集まったことからこのように呼ばれるようになったそうです。(flyingbird)
