South Korea has been in turmoil since former President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law and was impeached. Can the next leader bring the country back together?
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Overshadowing almost everything in the country is the impeachment of the former president for abuse and the ensuing political paralysis.
On Friday morning, officials abandoned an attempt to detain South Korea’s embattled president, throwing the country deeper into chaos.
South Koreans demonstrating against President Yoon have turned protest sites into multi-coloured musical rallies.
In 1972, a South Korean president instigated a self-coup and succeeded. Understanding why – and why the latest attempt failed – helps explain how far the country’s democracy has progressed and how fragile it could become.
There have been 46 attempted self-coups since the end of World War II – 80% have succeeded. So what went wrong for South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol?
In the space of just a few hours, South Korea looked to be backsliding toward autocratic rule.
South Korea has been a stable democracy since the 1980s, but the country was plunged into a short-lived, but severe, constitutional crisis. Here’s how it played out.
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