{"id":136981,"date":"2024-12-14T15:32:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T08:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=136981"},"modified":"2024-12-14T15:32:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T08:32:48","slug":"south-koreas-president-yoon-impeached-over-martial-law-crisis-latest-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=136981","title":{"rendered":"South Korea&#8217;s President Yoon Impeached Over Martial Law Crisis: Latest Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>While calling for President Yoon Suk Yeol\u2019s removal, tens of thousands of South Korean protesters have danced to traditional percussion, sung a pop genre called trot and blasted \u201cWhiplash,\u201d a hit by the girl group Aespa.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve also left rallies with the melody of \u201cFeliz Navidad\u201d stuck in their heads. The adaptation\u2019s repeated opening verse: \u201cImpeachment is the answer.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">The day after Mr. Yoon\u2019s short-lived <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/04\/world\/asia\/south-korea-yoon-martial-law.html\" title=\"\">declaration of martial law<\/a> last week, the protest anthem\u2019s creator, Baek Jae Gil, performed it for thousands outside the National Assembly in Seoul. A <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ninini0421\/status\/1864268737786085738\/video\/1\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">recording<\/a> has received nine million views on X, and the song has spread on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube. On the Chinese app WeChat, it has been translated into Chinese, he said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"css-1h1ukpg\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"[\ud0c4\ud575 \uce90\ub864] \ud0c4\ud575\uc774 \ub2e4\ube44\ub2e4 - \uac00\uc218 \ubc31\uc790 (12.5 \uad6d\ud68c) #\ud0c4\ud575\uce90\ub864 #\ud0c4\ud575\uc774\ub2e4\ube44\ub2e4 #\ud0c4\ud575\uc774\ub2f5\uc774\ub2e4\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SSKCW-WocQA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><figcaption class=\"css-ktho12 e3rygrp0\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cIf Yoon Suk Yeol gets lost, it\u2019s a Merry Christmas,\u201d the crowd sang along to the tune of the 1970 Christmas classic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Baek, 52, a professional musician known as Baekja, has been protesting for decades. He has seen demonstrations become more peaceful and the mood lighten since his first rally in 1989. That was during a brutally suppressed teachers movement that led to the formation of a national union.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt was scary,\u201d he said of those days in an interview last Saturday during <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2024\/12\/07\/world\/asia\/south-korea-protests-seoul-yoon.html\" title=\"\">protests<\/a> at the National Assembly. \u201cIt was the time of tear gas and violent repression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Growing up as the youngest of six children in South Korea\u2019s southwest, Mr. Baek said, he often heard stories from his older brothers about how soldiers suppressed pro-democracy protests in the nearby <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/06\/world\/asia\/gwangju-massacre-human-acts-han-kang.html\" title=\"\">city of Gwangju<\/a> in 1980, the last time South Korea was under martial law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cMy brother was almost killed,\u201d he said, adjusting his thick-rimmed glasses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">In middle school, he moved to Seoul at his brothers\u2019 recommendation to find better opportunities. In high school, he wrote poetry, some of it political. He kept writing poems as he studied business at university, and a friend from high school turned them into songs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">He took the stage as a singer for the first time in 1990, the year he started college, at a pro-democracy protest on campus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Baek also learned to play the guitar. In 1991, he performed it in the alleyways of Seoul among crowds of students and workers whose demonstrations were set off by the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1991\/05\/15\/world\/seoul-protest-sets-off-street-clashes.html\" title=\"\">killing of a student activist<\/a>. About a dozen protesters died <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1991\/05\/19\/world\/more-self-immolations-in-seoul-protests.html\" title=\"\">setting themselves on fire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cI sang in the midst of tear gas every week,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">In the past two decades, the police tactics to suppress demonstrations have become less violent. He said that protest culture changed significantly during candlelight vigils in 2002 in response to the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/08\/04\/world\/koreans-protest-us-military-s-handling-of-a-fatal-accident.html\" title=\"\">deaths<\/a> of two schoolgirls fatally struck by a U.S. Army vehicle. A U.S. military court <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/11\/23\/world\/2nd-us-sergeant-is-cleared-in-the-death-of-2-korean-girls.html\" title=\"\">acquitted<\/a> two soldiers in the crash, sparking anger, but the protests remained largely peaceful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Baek also saw the mood at demonstrations become brighter after the protests against <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/13\/world\/asia\/korea-park-geun-hye-protests.html\" title=\"\">President Park Geun-hye<\/a>, some of the largest the country has seen, led to her impeachment in 2016. People were jubilant, he said: A peaceful protest had <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/09\/world\/asia\/south-korea-president-park-geun-hye-impeached.html\" title=\"\">toppled<\/a> the country\u2019s leader.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cProtests in South Korea went from being dark and depressing to being fun and exciting,\u201d Mr. Baek said. \u201cThere was a sense of pride in democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Those demonstrations provided the inspiration for his \u201cFeliz Navidad\u201d adaptation. A protester performed a version of the song, originally written by the Puerto Rican singer Jos\u00e9 Feliciano, titled \u201cGeun-hye Is Not the One.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">(Mr. Feliciano did not comment directly on the latest adaptation. Susan Feliciano, his wife, said in a statement that the lyrics have been repurposed often and that it was gratifying to see the melody endure.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Baek wrote <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dQsbIcGT7O0\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">his version<\/a> in 2022, after Mr. Yoon had become president. Protests calling for his removal grew after a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/30\/world\/asia\/south-korea-itaewon-crowd-crush-victims.html\" title=\"\">crowd crush<\/a> in Seoul around Halloween killed more than 150 people. Mr. Baek wanted to come up with a song fit for the run-up to Christmas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe response has been great,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s fun, it\u2019s exciting, it\u2019s a Christmas carol.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Baek has run into trouble with other satirical songs. A government-run broadcaster accused him of copyright infringement earlier this year after he used portion of its footage in a YouTube video satirizing the material. At the broadcaster\u2019s request, YouTube deleted his video, and the police launched an investigation. Mr. Baek said he was fighting the case, calling it a targeted infringement on his free speech rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Last week, the day after hundreds of soldiers <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/03\/world\/asia\/south-korea-national-assembly-troops.html\" title=\"\">stormed<\/a> the National Assembly, he sang his anthem and several other songs there to an energized audience that was younger than those he had seen at previous rallies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cLet\u2019s make Yoon Suk Yeol\u2019s arrest our Christmas gift this year!\u201d he shouted before <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PY4Xskqz60Q\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">performing<\/a> for a crowd of protesters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Baek, who sang it again on a stage at last <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/07\/world\/asia\/south-korea-protests-president-impeach.html\" title=\"\">Saturday\u2019s protests<\/a>, said that he liked to lift people\u2019s mood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe wind is biting, isn\u2019t it?\u201d he told thousands of protesters as wind swept his brown-highlighted perm. \u201cIf you\u2019re cold, get up and dance!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">The crowd rose and cheered.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2024\/12\/14\/world\/south-korea-impeachment-president-yoon\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While calling for President Yoon Suk Yeol\u2019s removal, tens of thousands of South Korean protesters have danced to traditional percussion, sung a pop genre called trot and blasted \u201cWhiplash,\u201d a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=136981\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}