The ruling closes out Yoon’s short-lived political career but is unlikely to spell the end of the chaos that has roiled South Korea for months, analysts say: His removal immediately angered his supporters, who have been staging enormous protests throughout the country demanding his reinstatement. Local media reported some Yoon supporters attacked police buses set up to wall off the court in the wake of the decision.
South Korea must now hold an election within 60 days to choose a new president. The head of the liberal Democratic Party, Lee Jae-myung, is the front-runner, while the People Power Party has no clear candidate to succeed Yoon.
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Yoon still faces a separate criminal trial, which begins on April 14; he was indicted and charged with leading an insurrection when he declared martial law.
Dang, the dude tried to declare martial law out of nowhere (which is really serious when you've been neighboring a direct adversary for 60 years) and people are rioting in his name? Truly...
Dang, the dude tried to declare martial law out of nowhere (which is really serious when you've been neighboring a direct adversary for 60 years) and people are rioting in his name? Truly unhinged.
Though being in the U.S., I'm casting a massive stone in my brittle glass house that costs $3000/month in rent. Guess I can't say much there.
I caught a clip on NPR and one of Yoon's supporters was an older veteran and felt like the country was slipping into communism. Given their history, and the framing by the president of his...
I caught a clip on NPR and one of Yoon's supporters was an older veteran and felt like the country was slipping into communism.
Given their history, and the framing by the president of his opposition as working with North Korea, it makes more sense to me why one might support the former president. I don't agree or anything but I can see how they get there
I think another aspect at play here is the memories of the struggles South Korea citizens faced as they fought to bring democracy to their nation. The military dictatorship in Korea in the 1970s...
I think another aspect at play here is the memories of the struggles South Korea citizens faced as they fought to bring democracy to their nation. The military dictatorship in Korea in the 1970s was incredibly violent against protests for democracy and culminated in the 1980 Gwangju uprising. Protests continued as a new government was ushered in 1981. Student-led protests were incredibly common and as more students died at the hands of the dictatorship in 1987, protests began as another election loomed. The June struggle as its now called is incredible to read about. Where previous democratic protests were mainly comprised of students, this protest drew in people from all walks of life and there were over a million people protesting.
The 1980s were not that long ago and many of the students who would've participated in those protests are now in their 50s-70s and certainly would not want military control over their country again.
Surely this is unlikely to be what causes people to object to Yoon being taken out of office, though? I'd expect this to have the opposite effect given that he tried to declare martial law.
The 1980s were not that long ago and many of the students who would've participated in those protests are now in their 50s-70s and certainly would not want military control over their country again.
Surely this is unlikely to be what causes people to object to Yoon being taken out of office, though? I'd expect this to have the opposite effect given that he tried to declare martial law.
From the article:
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Dang, the dude tried to declare martial law out of nowhere (which is really serious when you've been neighboring a direct adversary for 60 years) and people are rioting in his name? Truly unhinged.
Though being in the U.S., I'm casting a massive stone in my brittle glass house that costs $3000/month in rent. Guess I can't say much there.
I caught a clip on NPR and one of Yoon's supporters was an older veteran and felt like the country was slipping into communism.
Given their history, and the framing by the president of his opposition as working with North Korea, it makes more sense to me why one might support the former president. I don't agree or anything but I can see how they get there
That makes a lot more sense to me. A lotta people still bear the physical and mental scars from the Korean War.
I think another aspect at play here is the memories of the struggles South Korea citizens faced as they fought to bring democracy to their nation. The military dictatorship in Korea in the 1970s was incredibly violent against protests for democracy and culminated in the 1980 Gwangju uprising. Protests continued as a new government was ushered in 1981. Student-led protests were incredibly common and as more students died at the hands of the dictatorship in 1987, protests began as another election loomed. The June struggle as its now called is incredible to read about. Where previous democratic protests were mainly comprised of students, this protest drew in people from all walks of life and there were over a million people protesting.
The 1980s were not that long ago and many of the students who would've participated in those protests are now in their 50s-70s and certainly would not want military control over their country again.
Surely this is unlikely to be what causes people to object to Yoon being taken out of office, though? I'd expect this to have the opposite effect given that he tried to declare martial law.
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