Reactionary Politics in South Korea

Manufacturing Fear, Selling Hate: How the Far Right Turns Crisis into Power

On December 3, 2024, then–President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea stunned the world by declaring martial law out of the blue. In a televised address, he emphasized the inevitability of martial law by identifying the current situation as a state of emergency, in which the opposition Democratic Party—what he described as a “pro–North Korea, […]

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