by Hieun SHINSouth Korean investigators recommended Thursday that impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol be charged with insurrection and abuse of power, as they handed prosecutors the results of their probe into his ill-fated declaration of martial law.Yoon should be charged with "leading an insurrectio...
i wouldn’t call South Korea ‘functioning’ any more than a normal nation
Functioning checks and balances on extreme government corruption and fascism.
Unfortunately, that’s how low the bar is these days…
How are you defining “normal?”
I think the main thing is that Korea’s government still has some fear of its people, which is very, very important. Enough stupid moves and millions of citizens can be on your doorstep (see Park Geunhe).
Yes, there’s a bunch of corruption. Yes, working culture blows. Yes, birth rates have been tanking for a reason (but reversed recently?!).
But there’s a reason those soldiers heading to the parliament building had no ammo except one guy in a squad with less lethal rounds. There’s a reason the martial law was ended so quickly. There’s a reason Yoon is actually getting his on a reasonable timescale.
In Korea, once you hit that tipping point of people realizing you’re a dick, you’re gonna have a real bad time.
any country that isn’t the fucking us