From martial law to coup-d'etat: What it means for South Korea now

It has happened. No matter how disheartening it is, martial law, once a remote counterfactual I had hypothesized about in early September, became South Korea’s reality last week. President Yoon Suk Yeol, in what many hoped was an impossible freak scenario, enacted martial law, citing national security concerns. For Korea which has lived through decades of democratic growth and painful memories of authoritarianism, this moment feels like a deep betrayal. Now, as we look at all this mess, the question isn’t just why or how it happened but what comes next.Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times