Farmers on tractors head for protest rally in Seoul Farmers drive tractors through the rain in Geumcheon Ward, southwestern Seoul, on their way to a protest rally downtown on May 10, 2025, calling for a halt to rice imports. Some 1,500 police officers later blocked their advance out of concerns of traffic jams. (Yonhap)
Rally against Yoon’s impeachment A rally opposing President Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment, organized by conservative organizations, takes place in Chuncheon on March 22, 2025. (Yonhap)
Currently in downtown Seoul: HUGE street protest and march calling for the removal of Yoon Suk Yeol. They want the Constitutional Court to uphold the impeachment against him. Decision could come next week. pic.twitter.com/XHcpqFUkG1
Walls of police buses amid rally against Yoon’s ouster A barricade of police buses is set up at Gwanghwamun Square in central Seoul on March 15, 2025, as protesters hold a rally opposing impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol’s ouster ahead of a court verdict on his fate. (Yonhap)
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.
Protesting Japan’s Dokdo sovereignty claim Civic groups hold a protest in Seoul on Feb. 22, 2025, against Japan’s renewed territorial claim over Dokdo, following an annual event held in Shimane Prefecture laying claim to South Korea’s easternmost islets. (Yonhap)
Rally by Yoon supportersSupporters of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol rally near the Seoul Central District Court in the capital on Feb. 20, 2025, as Yoon will attend the first hearing of his criminal trial on insurrection charges in connection with his short-lived imposition of martial law in December. (Yonhap)
Rally calling for Yoon’s impeachment People stage a rally to call for President Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment by the Constitutional Court in Gangneung, about 170 kilometers east of Seoul, on Feb. 15, 2025. (Yonhap)