/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

It's funny how South Korea has been a dictatorship for most of its existence but you're only allowed to use that word for the North.

As a kpop fan I am very worried.

what about the doctor's strike that's been ongoing

>>486004
>what about the doctor's strike
What about it ?
Why would anybody declare martial law for that?

>>486002
Yeah the in your face hypocrisy is astonishing.

>>486003
>As a kpop fan I am very worried.
Given how much Korean music industry operates like military drill in a boot-camp i doubt that can get any worse. Also can we replace "fan" with "enjoyer".

>South Korean president says he will lift martial law
WTF is that it???

From this even you can clearly see the difference between North Korea and South Korea: in the first an autocrath does whatever he wants without anyone being able to stop him while in the second the democratically elected parliament is a shield for the freedoms of the people, a true bastion of democracy that cannot be subjugated by dictators such as Kim Jong Un.

>>486012
lol

Well that was fast.

>>486012
Your comparisons are ideologically loaded.

This recent coup attempt is evidence that democracy in South Korea is not as robust as we thought, and that there might still be lingering vestiges of its dictatorial past looking to re-assert them selves.

North Korea has done exceptionally well given their circumstances considering that the DPRK has not been turned into a failed state like Libya or an ongoing battle-zone like Syria.

>>486044
>Well that was fast.
indeed, i would say cautious optimism is in order

This is wild! They almost false flagged themselves into a war with the North.

>>486360
i couldve posted about this but my source was allkpop and i was lazy

>>486360
>This is wild! They almost false flagged themselves into a war with the North.
<This is wild! They almost false flagged themselves into annihilation
There fixed that for you. The dprk does not fuck around, they still have that brutal war from the 1950s in the back-view mirror.

I think the coop attempt might have been linked to a neocon scheme to convert ROK into a weapons factory masquerading as a country. So if it had succeeded the Chinese might have intervened before the DPRK nuked them, but still.

>>486360
Finding this story hard to believe. It makes me wonder if it's a cooked up story to distract from the real one.

Took me literal weeks, but I finally recorded the song I wrote about this if anyone wants to hear it: https://leftychan.net/music/res/534.html#q679

>>486414
Like this newfriend:
>>>/music/679

>>486416
ey ty

https://www.allkpop.com/buzz/2024/12/korean-won-krw-hits-15-year-low-korean-netizens-react-with-concern
Korean Won (KRW) hits 15-year low: Korean netizens react with concern
>"Looking at the exchange rate, our country feels like a real developing nation.."
<"Just when I decided to travel, why are you doing this to me, to democracy?"

https://www.allkpop.com/buzz/2024/12/south-korea-has-impeached-the-acting-president-han-duck-soo
South Korea has impeached the acting President Han Duck Soo

>>486587
What's the link (if there is one) between ROK's falling exchange rate and the "political drama" ?

Impeached South Korean president blocks arrest

In a sign of the intensifying political crisis in South Korea, investigators and police attempted to execute an arrest warrant for impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol on Friday. He is the first sitting South Korean president to be the subject of an arrest warrant. They were rebuffed however by the president’s security detail including a military detachment.

The Seoul Western District Court issued the arrest warrant for Yoon on Tuesday at the request of the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO), which is investigating Yoon’s failed attempt to impose martial law on December 3. The court also issued a separate warrant for investigators to search Yoon’s presidential residence in Yongsan, Seoul, which they were also unable to carry out.

The CIO requested the warrant after Yoon refused to appear for questioning three times, most recently on December 29. Yoon has been accused of insurrection and abuse of power and is already listed as a criminal suspect in the case. While sitting presidents are immune from prosecution, this does not apply to charges of insurrection and treason. Yoon has denounced the CIO, claiming it has no authority to investigate his martial law declaration. His lawyers called the arrest warrant “illegal.”

When CIO officials and the police arrived at Yoon’s residence Friday morning, they attempted to enter at around 8:00 a.m., but were blocked by the Presidential Security Service (PSS) and the 55th Security Brigade, which belongs to the Army’s Capital Defense Command, but is subordinate to the PSS. Clashes between the two sides reportedly broke out and a standoff lasted for approximately five and half hours before the CIO called off the attempt to arrest Yoon.

…

The CIO released a statement afterwards saying, “We determined that executing the detention warrant would be practically impossible due to the continued confrontation, and suspended the execution out of concern for the safety of on-site personnel caused by the resistance. We plan to decide on the next steps following a review.” The warrant remains valid until Monday.

read more: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/01/04/yjli-j04.html

>>486754
<a battle in the palace of the fallen king

Damn South Korean politics are spectacularly entertaining, definitely Banana Republic territory tho.

>>486754
So it's a military junta now? What do you call it when the police can't stand down the authority of the military on domestic law, especially when martial law has been legally overturned? That sounds like a junta to me. Or civil war.

>>486766
>So it's a military junta now?
Not really, "dictator Suck" has no political power whatsoever.

>What do you call it when the police can't stand down the authority of the military on domestic law, especially when martial law has been legally overturned?
I would call it trouble. IMHO They were being unrealistic trying to arrest this guy. He stepped outside of democracy, and in that case power-transfer usually happens in one of 2 ways, either he goes into exile or he goes into a grave.

>That sounds like a junta to me. Or civil war.
No it's not at the stage of a civil war just yet. I guess they'll get more political instability, if they don't wrap this up quickly. It's understandable that they did not press it, they didn't want bloodshed. But if this thing drags on and dictator Suck can rope more people into it, shit might get ugly.

>>486015
Do NOT compare that uyghur to Mr. Park, he had a dirigisme policy and even used Soviet-like 5 year plans to boost economic growth. He was nattrot. We have things to learn from him, then he became a tyrannical maniac ofc but whatever.
>After the end of World War II he participated in a communist cell organized within the South Korean army and was sentenced to death but gained a reprieve as a result of his cooperation with the authorities.
>In May of 1960, Park and a group of other officers of the South Korean army took control of the government. The U.S. government was uncertain of what had taken place in South Korea. There was strong suspicions that Park was a crypto-communist and the media sometimes referred to him as "Parkov," a Russianized version of his name.
https://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/park.htm
Also his assassination was fishy and some say the CIA was involved
>Declassified US Embassy Seoul cables related to nuclear proliferation during the Park Chung Hee era show that, far from making South Korea more secure, Park’s toying with the nuclear option made him an unpredictable and even dangerous client who needed restraint in the eyes of US policymakers.
https://nautilus.org/napsnet/napsnet-special-reports/park-chung-hee-the-cia-and-the-bomb/

Take the sa-dalla pill.

>>486788
i don't get it

>>486790
Sa-dalla.



Okay, I searched it up and it turns out to be from a show about a South Korean mobster turned politician (who also happened to be the son of an anarchist Korean independence activist, but I don't know how matters).

The person: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Du-han
His father: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Chwa-chin
The TV show: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rustic_Period

South Korean sources translated into English by computer:
https://en.namu.wiki/w/%EA%B9%80%EB%91%90%ED%95%9C
https://en.namu.wiki/w/%EA%B9%80%EB%91%90%ED%95%9C/%EC%83%9D%EC%95%A0

>>486791
thanks

https://x.com/redstreamnet/status/1879285394069762424
Red - NOW: Authorities in the Republic of Korea (ROK) are attempting to arrest impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol for the second time over his brief declaration of martial law in December. Up to 1,000 police officers have been deployed, currently attempting to enter Yoon’s residence.

>>486892
Vietnam should invade South Korea as revenge for when South Korea joined in on invading Vietnam.

https://www.allkpop.com/article/2025/01/jk-kim-dong-wook-faces-legal-complaint-for-violating-south-koreas-foreign-nationals-political-activity-ban
In the document, the complainant stated, “JK Kim Dong Wook (John Kim) relinquished his South Korean citizenship to acquire Canadian citizenship, making him a foreign national. According to Article 17 of the Immigration Control Act, foreign nationals residing in South Korea are prohibited from engaging in political activities. Violators may face penalties.”