If Yoon’s impeachment opened extraordinary spaces of participation, now they must become integrated into the ordinary workings of democracy.

Yoon, whose government was highly unpopular due to authoritarian policies and escalating war efforts, was impeached by the country’s parliament for imposing a short-lived martial law over the country last year in December.

Dae-Han Song discuses with Mikaela Nhondo Erskog last December’s attempted coup in South Korea – why it took place, how it was defeated and the effect that will have on the country’s politics.

Calls for Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol to resign have grown throughout the country following the President’s attempt to impose martial law

In his announcement declaring martial law, President Yoon Suk Yeol stated that he seeks to eradicate “shameless pro-North Korean anti-state forces”

Activists from struggles across South Korea hold first national gathering opposing the Yoon administration’s NewSpace program due to its destructive military, economic, and environmental costs

The visits of Sergey Shoigu and Li Hongzhong indicate that Russia and China are close to North Korea in response to the Biden Administration accelerating the deepening of a trilateral alliance between Washington, Tokyo, and Seoul

La aspiración del Presidente Yoon Suk Yeol de convertir a Corea del Sur en un “Estado pivote mundial” está convirtiendo a su país en un engranaje más de la maquinaria bélica estadounidense y pone en juego la seguridad y el futuro económico de Corea del Sur en un orden mundial en declive liderado por Estados Unidos.

President Yoon Suk Yeol’s aspiration to position South Korea as a “global pivotal state” is turning his country into a bigger cog in the US war machine and stakes South Korea’s security and economic future on a declining US-led global order

En una escalada de persecución antisindical en Corea del Sur, la Confederación Coreana de Sindicatos (KCTU) fue objeto de una redada por parte del Servicio Nacional de Inteligencia, acusada de violar una ley de seguridad nacional de la época de la Guerra Fría.

In a major escalation of the ongoing anti-trade union persecution in South Korea, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) was raided by the National Intelligence Service on charges of violating a Cold War-era national security law 

The nationwide truck drivers’ strike completed 10 days on December 3, despite back-to-work orders and further strike-busting threats from the conservative Yoon Suk-yeol government