More and more protesters are gathering near the presidential residence in South Korea in an attempt to stop 2000+ police officers trying to arrest President Yoon.
The president is protected by a military unit of around 200 soldiers.
The Stop the Steal movement is growing 🇰🇷 pic.twitter.com/nPQdIaR0Op
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) January 14, 2025
🇰🇷BREAKING NEWS:
South Korea’s ousted President Yoon has been arrested on charges of treason. pic.twitter.com/IX3hXCfPJe
— Update NEWS (@UpdateNews724) January 15, 2025
I’ll bet this dickhead is wishing seppuku was a part of Korean culture right about now.
Ritual suicide to preserve the honor of one’s family has never been more appropriate than right here.
What a total disgrace.
South Korea’s impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol, has been arrested and is to undergo questioning over his ill-fated declaration of martial law last month, anti-corruption investigators said on Wednesday, bringing to an end an early-morning standoff outside his official residence in Seoul.Yoon remained defiant, however, saying he had agreed to cooperate with anti-corruption authorities to “avoid bloodshed” after the latest chapter in a saga that has rocked South Korean politics and triggered concern among its allies. Yoon said the rule of law had “completely collapsed” after his detention.
“President Yoon has decided to personally appear at the Corruption Investigation Office (CIO) today,” his lawyer Seok Dong-hyeon said on Facebook, adding that the impeached leader would also make a speech. But investigators announced shortly after that Yoon had been arrested.
Reports said a convoy of vehicles, one of which was presumably carrying Yoon, had left the presidential residence and later arrived at the offices of the anti-corruption agency heading the probe. His detention makes him the first sitting president in the nation’s history to be arrested.
Mind you, most of the presidents have been utterly corrupt members of bizarre cults.
Investigators had entered Yoon’s residence early on Wednesday in a fresh attempt to execute a warrant for his arrest over allegations that his declaration of martial law amounted to insurrection – a crime that can come with life imprisonment or even the death penalty.
Streets around the compound were sealed off with police buses and thousands of officers were present.But crowds of Yoon supporters, most of them elderly, were gathered near the residence gates and around makeshift stages hosting speeches describing the arrest warrant “fake” and calling for the arrest of opposition leader Lee Jae-myung.
Braving the freezing early morning, many held up red light sticks, US flags and banners in both Korean and English, including “Stop the steal” and “CCP out”, embracing unfounded claims of electoral manipulation and alleged Chinese interference – despite the fact that no major election observers or courts have raised concerns about last April’s parliamentary vote that saw the opposition secure a decisive victory.Nearby, a smaller group of pro-impeachment protesters, kept apart from Yoon’s supporters by a police cordon, was chanting “Enter! Enter! Arrest him!”
These Koreans are completely mind-fucked.
The US are the good guys?
The people who did this to your boys:
They’re the good guys?
They’re your friends, trying to help you… fight the Chinese leftists?
It’s a complicated history, but if you want to see what a country looks like when the US invades your country and then communists win, maybe go check out Vietnam.
It’s a really nice country and it doesn’t have these social issues. Their birthrate isn’t great, but it’s three times the birthrate of South Korea.
They don’t have this:
It was more or less an identical situation, where the US invaded an Asian country to stop communism. It’s just that in Vietnam, they failed. So Vietnam isn’t split in half with an ultra militarized DMZ driving everyone insane.
Anyway, I predicted that Korean society would completely unravel if Squid Game 2 sucked, and though I haven’t watched it, I’m sure it sucked. I might watch it at some point. But how could it not suck? The director didn’t even want to make it but they made him an offer he could not refuse.
This is just a complete mess. Like Taiwan, South Korea is an American Skinner Box where the Americans can just do anything to the people there. They have the entire right-wing of the country thinking the sickening Jewnited Snakes are the good guys, and somehow they are incapable of looking at the obvious fact that North Korea does not have this:
It’s sad.
I’ve had a lot of nonwhite friends, but the only really close nonwhite friend I ever had (frankly, the only close non-Irish diaspora friend I had) was Korean. He was neurotic as hell, and what I’ve come to understand is that this is the case with all South Koreans. They have been totally driven into pathological disorders by this ridiculous situation where the US tells them they are going to get bombed into oblivion by their brothers and sisters in the North, even whilst the only reason the North is militarized is that the US militarized the South.
I mean, I understand that all Asians dislike the Chinese to various extents, and I’m familiar with the reasons behind that. I’m actually not familiar with the reasons South Koreans don’t like the Chinese, as they are actually complaining about the Chinese government, which is not something I’ve ever heard from any other group of Asians. They all complain about Chinese people, but Koreans are the only ones complaining about “the CCP,” because of this overwhelming American influence. But seriously, even the Japs don’t complain about “the CCP,” they just generally dislike Chinese people.
In my experience, Chinese are gentlemanly and kind, but Asians have different concepts of politeness, and while they are similar from Korea to Thailand, Chinese don’t have these same customs, and this is generally the source of the animosity. It has nothing at all to do with the Chinese government, which if it is thought of at all is viewed much more positively than the Chinese people in general.
Korea needs to reunify in order to be fixed, and the US will never allow that.
I still don’t understand this Yoon coup, but it does now seem like the US was okay with it and might have supported it for some reason.
As long as the South is occupied by the US, the right will be screaming nonsense about China and the rest of the country will be doing this:
