Hey
@Null, South Korea has been going through some shenanigans in the political sphere than just Johnny Somali that the lunacy warrants the situation being covered. I'll help summarize the situation.
The peninsular nation can be described as the next candidate of a lolcow nation after Canada and Bongland. Of the last out of South Korea's official 13 presidents, 4 were criminally charged and went through prison sentences (of which 2 were military dictators), 1 committed suicide, 1 got assassinated (Park Chung-hee), 2 got overthrown in a military coup, 1 lived in exile, 1 may be impeached and charged, 1 left an unpopular legacy, and 2 left an unscathed legacy.
https://kiwifarms.net/threads/south...of-anti-state-activities.206135/post-19993870 /
https://kiwifarms.net/threads/south...of-anti-state-activities.206135/post-19997098
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| Yoon Suk-yeol | Lee Jae-myung | Han Duck-soo | Choi Sang-mok | Lee Ju-ho |
We'll focus on two people first: Yoon Suk-yeol (call him Yoon) and Lee Jae-myung (call him Lee). Yoon is basically the country's Boris Yeltsin: a drunkard, incompetent, and
listens to a shaman for political advice (
which is also why a previous South Korean president got impeached). Yoon was elected President of South Korea in 2022 over his opponent Lee because South Koreans despised Lee more: he treats politics as he were a gangster, reportedly had people murdered when he was mayor, and allegedly has connections to North Korea and China.
Yoon and Lee despise each other, and both had sabotaged campaigns, get politicians of the opposition party arrested, and manipulated the media to see who is worse. However, Lee was winning in the end. Yoon was an unpopular president, with a 20% approval rating because he's unable to do anything as a "Lame Duck President" because Lee's party held control over the legislature.
Yoon had corruption charges lobbied at Lee because of criminal actions that Lee has done when he was mayor. However, these charges were recently dropped against Lee. Lee's party, the Democratic Party, who also has control over the country's legislature, created a set of laws to make Lee bulletproof against charges and impossible to arrest.
Yoon panicked and declared the world's shortest martial law to arrest and destroy Lee and his party on 3 December 2024. Lee is already powerful enough as the Party Leader to declare Total Yoon Death even before the next Presidential Election, when Yoon is expected to lose. However, as we seen, the martial law did not succeed, and now everything is stacked against Yoon: the legislature, the military, the Korean populace, and his own party are now against him. Yoon was soon impeached and was removed as President on 4 April 2025 as ordered by South Korea's highest court, the Constitutional Court.
Speaker of the National Assembly of South Korea signing resolution approving the Impeachment of Yoon Suk Yeol
Lee wants Total Yoon Death, and will do everything to make it happen since he has the legislature under his control. As is South Korean law, Yoon is succeeded by his prime minister Han Duck-soo (call him Han) to become the next President of South Korea, while also retaining his Prime Minister position as is South Korean law. However, since Han wasn't elected, he is referred as the Acting President as he is filling in Yoon's position due to Yoon's impeachment.
Hoping Han will be more subservient to him, Lee demanded Han to hire special counsel to investigate and potentially prosecute Yoon and his wife. In addition, Lee demanded Han to pack the Constitutional Court with pro-Lee judges so that the pro-Lee side will attain a supermajority. Han, disgusted by this power-lusting play by Lee, declined. Lee soon directed his party to impeach Han, which they successfully did.
Choi Sang-mok (call him Choi, pronounce it as "
Choy," as in the Chinese vegetable
bok choy), who was the country's first deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Finance, soon succeeded Han to become President of South Korea as well as taking Han's position of Prime Minister.
Therefore, Choi is now
- Acting President of South Korea
- Acting Prime Minister of South Korea
- Deputy Prime Minister of South Korea
- Minister of Economy and Finance
From 4 December to 29 December 2024, South Korea speedran through three different presidents. Lee hoped that Choi would also be more subservient than Han, but Choi refused to play ball. Choi decided to fill the Constitutional Court with bi-partisan judges instead of judges solely approved by Lee, which pissed him and his party off. In addition, Choi vetoed any bills that investigated Yoon and his wife, including a bill to bring in special counsel. Extremely bitter, Lee and his party soon planned impeachment charges against Choi.
However, Lee's luck was running out. On 24 March 2025, the Constituational Court overturned Han's impeachment, making him Acting President again. However, Han had different ideas and wanted to run in the next presidential election in South Korea that will occur on 3 June 2025 to stop Lee and decided to step-down as Acting President on 1 May 2025. Lee's party launched impeachment proceedings against Cho and Choi quickly resigned. Education minister and deputy prime minister Lee Ju-ho (different Lee, called him Ju-ho - pronounced
Jew-hoe) took over instead as acting president instead.
Finally, the worst is to come for Lee. On the same day, the Supreme Court** overturned Lee's acquittal on charges of violating electoral laws by “spreading falsehoods," which can hurt Lee's presidential campaign for the June presidential election. He has past convictions for drink driving and impersonating a prosecutor and faces several other criminal proceedings including charges of illegally remitting funds to North Korea. Lee denies all wrongdoing.
Therefore, Ju-ho is now:
- Acting President of South Korea
- Acting Prime Minister of South Korea
- Deputy Prime Minister of South Korea
- Minister of Education
From 4 December 2024 to 1 May 2025, South Korea speedran through 4 presidents, technically 5 because Han become acting president again non-consecutively.
Article link:
https://kiwifarms.st/threads/acting...lacements-replacement-under-legal-fire.218680
**South Korea has two high courts in the federal judiciary: the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court. They both do the same thing with different ways of appointing, but recently, the Constitutional Court was granted the power to overrule decisions made by the Supreme Court.
Have you tried an eternal leader? Worst Korea bested again by Best Korea.
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