Seoul, South Korea:
South Korea’s Yun Suk Yeol reached the presidency from Star Prosecutor in a few years, but after a martial law decree last year, he became the second President of the country on Friday, who was booted from the office.
On December 3, on the dark days of South Korea’s military rule, the Lurch lasted only a few hours, and after one night of protest and high drama, Yun was forced into a U-turn by MPs.
He was rapid impeachment by Parliament, and after weeks hearing and consultation, the country’s constitutional court unanimously retained his impeachment unanimously, snatching them all the President’s powers and privileges.
It was worried for the whole time.
He was detained in a dawn raid in January, who became the first sitting South Korean President after exiting the police and prosecutors for weeks – although he was later released on procedural basis.
A postdotoral Fellow William and Mary, a postdotoral Fellow William and Mary, told AFP, “Yun’s” dismissal, “the dismissal of South Korea re -presented South Korea’s flexibility as a democracy as a democracy, but also works. ,
He said that the country’s democracy “faces constant threats from many processes, including misinformation, despite institutional investigation and balance on power,” he said.
Growing up in dictatorship
Born in Seoul in 1960 months before a military coup, Yun studied the law and became a public prosecutor and anti -corruption cruser.
She played an important role in South Korea’s first female President Park Gain-Hai, impeached in 2016 and was later convicted and imprisoned for misuse of power.
As the country’s top prosecutor in 2019, he also convicted a senior colleague of the park’s successor, Moon Ja-in, in a fraud and bribery case.
Conservative People Power Party (PPP), at that time, in protest, he saw and assured Yun to be his presidential candidate.
He won by defeating Lee J-Mung of Democratic Party in March 2022, but won by the most narrow margin in South Korean history.
Halloween to handbag
Yun had never loved the public, especially by women – they vowed to end the Ministry of Sexual Equality on the campaign mark – and scams have become thick and faster.
They are involved in dealing with the 2022 rush crush during the Halloween festival to their administration, killing more than 150 people.
Voters have also blamed the administration for inflation, a previous economy, and lack of increase in freedom of speech.
He was accused of misusing the presidential veto, especially by his wife Kim Kane to attack a bill to complete a bill for a special investigation of the alleged stock manipulation.
In 2023, the reputation of Yun was killed when his wife secretly accepted a designer handbag of $ 2,000 as a gift. Yun insisted that it would have been rude to refuse.
His mother-in-law, Choi Yun-Son was sentenced to one year in jail for making financial documents in a real estate deal. He was released in May 2024.
legacy
As the President, Yun maintained a tough stance against Nuclear-Sastra North Korea and enhanced Seoul’s traditional ally, relations with the United States.
In 2023, he sang Don McLeen’s “American Pie” at the White House, inspired the US President Joe Biden to respond: “I had no shame that you could sing.”
But his efforts to restore relations with Japan, a former colonial ruler of South Korea, did not sit well with many people at home.
It was a lame duck president as the opposition Democratic Party won a majority in the parliamentary elections in April last year.
In his television address announcing martial law, Yun raided against “anti-state-state elements”, and his office later stepped into a bid to break the legislative gridlock.
Since then, he received support from highly relative figure and right-wing youtubers.
The Pro-Yone rallies became violent in January, when extremist supporters, angry with the approval of the court of formal arrest warrant, injuries a storm in a Seoul Courthouse-injured 50 police officers at least 50 police officers and broke the windows and doors and barbarized the building.
The extreme political base was “not built around personal loyalty for Yun – it is more structural and ideological. It is very related,” G Yoong, a professor of political science at the University of Michigan, told AFP.
“As we have seen in other democracy, such groups often carry forward leaders who bring them together.
He said, “In this sense, the legacy of Yun helped to wake up through his achievements, but through political forces he helped to wake up – who can continue the Korean democracy in the coming years, shape, and challenge,” he said.
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