Up to 1.3 million protesters braved sleet and freezing temperatures in Seoul to demand the resignation of president Park Geun-Hye over a corruption scandal. Park is accused of allowing her friend, Choi Soon-Sil, to manipulate power from behind the scenes. The president has apologized twice, but has so far resisted calls to resign. Organizers said 1.5 million were in Seoul and another 400,000 in other regions of the country. Police put the turnout in the capital at 270,000. About 25,000 officers were deployed in Seoul, but there were no reports of violence. The protests, which began five weeks ago, were the largest in South Korea since pro-democracy demonstrations of the 1980s.