Tag: protests

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

| June 16, 2025
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

| May 13, 2025

Picture of the Day: Tractor Protest

| May 13, 2025
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?

| April 21, 2025
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

| March 24, 2025
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

| March 17, 2025

Picture of the Day: Pro-Yoon Protest in Seoul

| March 17, 2025
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

| March 4, 2025

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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Picture of the Day: Dokdo Protest in Seoul

| February 24, 2025
Protesting Japan's Dokdo sovereignty claim
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)

Picture of the Day: Stop the Steal Rally in Seoul

| February 21, 2025
Rally by Yoon supporters
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)