Tag: protests

Picture of the Day: Activists Protest Against Korean Investment in the U.S.

Call for review of U.S. investment
Call for review of U.S. investment
Civic activists chant slogans in central Seoul on Oct. 21, 2025, calling for a comprehensive review of South Korean investments planned for the United States. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Pro-Iran Protest Outside U.S. Embassy in South Korea

Anti-U.S. rally
Anti-U.S. rally
Members of progressive civic groups stage a rally near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul on June 23, 2025, to condemn the U.S. strikes on Iran’s key nuclear sites over the weekend. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Protest Against Seoul’s Queer Culture Festival

Opposing Seoul Queer Culture Festival
Opposing Seoul Queer Culture Festival
Opponents of the Seoul Queer Culture Festival attend a rally held near Seoul City Hall in central Seoul on June 14, 2025. The Seoul Queer Culture Festival took place nearby on the same day. (Yonhap)

Tweet of the Day: Times Square Protest

Picture of the Day: Tractor Protest

Farmers on tractors head for protest rally in Seoul
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)

Picture of the Day: Yoon Again?

Pro-Yoon rally
Pro-Yoon rally
Supporters of ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol hold a rally in Seoul’s Jongno Ward on April 19, 2025. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Rally in Support of Yoon in Chuncheon

Rally against Yoon's impeachment
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)

Tweet of the Day: Anti-Yoon Protest in Seoul

Picture of the Day: Pro-Yoon Protest in Seoul

Walls of police buses amid rally against Yoon's ouster
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)

Stop the Steal Protest at Ewha Woman’s University Turns Violent After Pro-Impeachment Protesters Show Up

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.

Yonhap

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