Comments on: What’s going on in South Korea?

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 15:28:02 +0000

and that the next president will be from a left-wing party.
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Why? The left-wing parties appear to have all of 2% of the seats in the legislature.

By: Niketas Choniates

Niketas Choniates — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 14:36:37 +0000

Something like this, I don’t think you can hope to understand it by anything you read in American media. American journalists don’t know anything and they’re just going to type up something somebody handed them, and unless you already Korea well you will not spot a false narrative.

You can try looking for English-language Korean sources, but you’ll have to pick up a lot of background information first before you can expect to have a chance of not misunderstanding what you read, and you’ll have to understand Korea well enough to figure out the biases of your Korean sources.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 14:18:16 +0000

It seems that it is always the people saving democracy who are the biggest threats to its continuance.

By: Philip Sells

Philip Sells — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 01:22:25 +0000

I was determined not to ask my Korean teacher about any of this stuff this evening, and I held to that. She has family in Seoul, of course, so certainly has a stake in the matter. Besides, I don’t have any political- or government-related vocabulary yet.

By: Miguel cervantes

Miguel cervantes — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:46:21 +0000

Like the ginzu knife commercial

https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1863983549138763933

Autogolpe in progress

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:00:12 +0000

Kimchi Revolution.
(It stinks…)

By: Miguel cervantes

Miguel cervantes — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 23:50:31 +0000

Whenever you hear a kerluffle its only half of the story

By: Cornflour

Cornflour — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 23:45:11 +0000

It’s true that there are few good analyses of the politics surrounding the martial law declaration, but “The Korea Times” has just published a summary that seems pretty even-handed (https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2024/12/356_387646.html).

“The Korea Times” is a well-established English-language newspaper that’s generally viewed as politically lightweight. It’s audience is primarily English-speaking expats living in Korea.

An American-centric comment:

I’d guess that President Yoon Suk Yeol will either resign or be impeached, and that the next president will be from a left-wing party. In Korea, that means pro-North Korea, pro-China, and very anti-American. The Korean Left has already compared Yoon Suk Yeol to Trump, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see lots of anti-American demonstrations in the coming years. Trump hatred will be used to inflame the base.

By: Miguel cervantes

Miguel cervantes — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 23:23:41 +0000

The rest of the story

https://x.com/GordonGChang/status/1863970929606373602

Among his other talents he sings pretty well as well as being pro American

By: Mike Plaiss

Mike Plaiss — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 22:41:56 +0000

He should go straight for a George Costanza type defense.

Wait, you thought I was being serious? I was kidding! I thought you knew I was kidding!