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What the hell are they hoping to achieve with this tho? I'm so confused
I mean they had a dictatorship before the 80s, probably trying to do that again. But you have to imagine his approval rating is even more in the toilet than before, so he basically has to cancel all elections going forward to make that happen.
South Korea is an even deeper oligarchy than the US. All Yoon has to do is secure the majority of that oligarchy's opinion and they will essentially enforce the political line through the chaebols (family owned megacorps) they control. Chaebols have immense power over normal people because they're effectively the only way to be upper-middle/middle class in Korea. Chaebol employment practices are obscene to the point where you can be not hired/fired for being ugly which is why SK has such a high rate of plastic surgery.
There's a real play here. The jury is still out if it's "enough". You can't really "vote away" martial law in SK, in the same way you cannot legislate the President to be ethical in the US. Most of the real politics of capitalist societies don't happen in senate chambers, they happen in backrooms.
Edit: and it looks like the coup fell apart
(despite the 190-0 parliament vote to end it which their constitution says the president must allow)
Totally normal democracy stuff going on here. Lame duck presidents always do this uhhhhhh
Voting doesn't stop fascism?? If libs could read they'd be very 
wtf did i wake up to?
We’re doing decades again baby
this makes all the moves DPRK recently did to distance themselves from unification make so much sense
Moments after I made a comment mocking Yoon for blaming commies for everything I had some smug lib jump at me about how actually north Korea is the real martial law. Then he edited his comment as soon as the vote was announced like
bet you feel stupid for joking about Korean democracy now..look how democratic.
Anyway what an idiot I was for not immediately seeing how good at 
ing Korea is. It's all solved now...
🤣
I'm guessing they're doing a test run of martial law before they eventually have to do it for real when they start the civil war.
It is hilarious though, they declared martial law cause the head of state personally felt the vibes were off. Y'all are on the same team ffs
All Anti-DPRK propaganda is South Korean 
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