The demographic collapse of South Korea, and to a lesser extent Japan, is due mainly to imposition of liberalism by the Empire that occupies them (China is in better shape). The West looks on in dismay because it senses South Korea is the canary in the coalmine: Liberalism kills. pic.twitter.com/ZcU6IYk2hy
— King Baeksu (@KingBaeksu) March 1, 2025
The USS Carl Vinson arrives at a key naval base in the southeastern city of Busan on March 2, 2025. (Yonhap)
It looks like ROK conservatives are preparing for President Yoon’s impeachment to be confirmed and are now communicating their platform for the upcoming snap election:
Labor Minister Kim Moon-soo, left, and Daegu Mayor Hong Joon-pyo pay tribute to the 2.28 Democracy Movement Monument in Daegu, Friday. Yonhap
“The current Constitution, adopted in 1987, must change. People should not experience [DPK] Rep. Lee’s 29 impeachment motions or the president’s martial law imposition ever again,” Han told reporters Sunday. “Accomplishing this requires a willingness to make sacrifices on the part of those entrusted with important tasks.”
In an interview, Han said that if elected president, he would advocate for a constitutional amendment to introduce a four-year term with the possibility of reelection and would step down in 2028 to ensure that the next presidential and general elections coincide. He also said establishing a congress with two separate legislative chambers, similar to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, is essential.
Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon also echoed the idea, suggesting that whoever is the next president should resign after three years in office so as to align the two elections (presidential and general). Daegu Mayor Hong Joon-pyo expressed his support for the four-year term with reelection and a bicameral legislature but disagreed with the proposal to shorten the next presidential term to three years.
You can read more at the link.
The divide between the pro and anti-Yoon sides in South Korea is continuing to deepen:
About two dozen students, alumni and others gathered at Ewha Womans University in Seoul last week, denouncing the National Assembly’s impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol as “invalid,” only to encounter another group of students holding an in-school rally calling for Yoon’s ouster at the same time.
The encounter quickly escalated into violence as dozens of pro-Yoon YouTubers and activists broke into the campus to join forces, along with an opposing group of anti-Yoon student activists, despite the female-only university’s ban on outsiders entering the campus for any rally.
Insults were hurled between the opposing groups, while some tugged at others before the scene was brought to an end only after university officials and police personnel were mobilized.
You can read more at the link.
This makes me wonder what the quality of the Phd these people who cannot have a job have?:
Three out of 10 people who obtained a Ph.D. last year were unemployed, with the ratio going up to nearly 50 percent for those aged under 30, data showed, Sunday.
The unemployment rate of Ph.D. holders is at an all-time high since Statistics Korea began collecting the data in 2014, highlighting a shortage of quality jobs and the widening impact of the job market downturn on highly educated professionals.
According to the data, 70.4 percent of the 10,442 individuals who obtained a Ph.D. last year said they secured a job. Those who failed to find employment accounted for 26.6 percent, while 3 percent were classified as economically inactive.
You can read more at the link.
Very large rallies for and against President Yoon’s impeachment took place in Seoul this weekend:
Rallies led by conservative activist pastor Jeon Kwang-hoon and the conservative Christian group Save Korea began near the Gwanghwamun area in downtown Seoul and Yeouido in western Seoul at 1 p.m. to oppose Yoon’s impeachment.
Police estimated up to 120,000 people had gathered for the two rallies.
Dozens of lawmakers from the ruling People Power Party (PPP) attended the rally in Yeouido, including Rep. Yoon Sang-hyun, who delivered a message on behalf of the impeached president on the rally stage.
“When the will and the sense of responsibility to defend freedom are lost, communist totalitarianism and populism will take its place,” the lawmaker quoted Yoon as saying. “We must fight until the end with that will and sense of responsibility.”
What is interesting is how the conservative rallies completely dwarfed what the left wing parties were able to muster in support of Yoon’s impeachment:
DP leader Rep. Lee Jae-myung was among the 18,000 people gathered for the rally near Anguk Station, where the Constitutional Court is located, according to an unofficial police estimate. The DP said some 130 lawmakers took part.
Lee denounced the PPP, claiming that those who deny constitutional order and the rule of law cannot be conservatives. (….)
At 5 p.m., another group of protesters calling for Yoon’s ouster held a rally in downtown Seoul, with about 15,000 people gathering, according to police estimate.
Participants held picket signs supporting Yoon’s impeachment and chanted, “Hurray for democracy,” and “Hurray for ending insurrection.”
So between the two left wing rallies they were able to muster 33,000 people compared to the conservative rally that had 120,000 people. For those that have followed rallies before in South Korea the turn out for the left is pretty pathetic by their standards. For example for the anti-US beef riots in 2008 drew far more than this in one rally much less two.
I think what this shows is that there is not broad support for President Yoon’s impeachment and that within the Korean left there is also not as much support for Lee Jae-myung as some believed.
Please leave anything you want to discuss in the comments section.
They aren’t just coming after conservative populists in America. They’re coming after us across the world.
WATCH as Ambassador Morse Tan describes the political persecution against South Korean President Yoon:
“In South Korea, you have a coup in process…the person who wants… pic.twitter.com/cuofUABX4m
— CPAC (@CPAC) February 26, 2025
