The New Yorker:

After President Yoon Suk-yeol ordered martial law, the legislature voted to impeach him. But it could take months to remove him from office, and uncertainties remain.

By E. Tammy Kim

On Saturday evening, a week and a half after South Korea’s President, Yoon Suk-yeol, declared martial law and deployed soldiers outfitted for war against citizens and lawmakers in his own country, the National Assembly voted to remove him from power. Two-thirds of the legislative body—including at least twelve members of Yoon’s party—voted in favor of impeachment, as more than a million Koreans surrounded the parliamentary complex, in Seoul, chanting, singing K-pop, and waving glow sticks and signs (“Arrest Yoon Suk-yeol for treason!”) in the shivering cold. “Historically, politics has followed the public square,” Lee Chang-geun, an autoworker and union organizer who travelled from another province to attend the demonstration, told me. “This has been a dangerous situation, but I believe in the Korean democracy, in the basic functioning of the system.”

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