Political turmoil: Yoon supporters waiting for the announcement of the Constitutional Court’s verdict on his impeachment outside the presidential residence in Seoul. —AFP
DEMOCRACY worked as it supposed in South Korea, as a president who abused power was peacefully removed from power. It’s a lesson for all of us. In 2021, Republican senators failed to protect democracy by not convicting Donald Trump and barring him from ever holding public office again.
On Dec 3, then South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol invoked martial law, under a rationale that remains somewhat nebulous. The nation’s highest court recently upheld the parliament’s impeachment of Yoon and ordered him removed from office, capping a lightning collapse of the conservative rising star in just the four months since he took aim at the country’s democracy.
