South Korean investigators call for indictment of detained President Yoon

I am still really unclear as to why he declared martial law.

Was Yoon was a dictator in the making if it wasn't for the courageous actions of the lawmakers who managed to enter the National Assembly and vote to Impeach him.

Well Done S. Korea and congrats on rescuing your nations Democracy.

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I am still really unclear as to why he declared martial law.

One would need to be very highly versed in South Korean politics to fully understand Yoon's reasons.

I think when South Korea was doing very well it was under a dictatorship.

North Korea also has a dictatorship and the country is run well.

I think democracy is too early for Koreans who cannot understand a country governed by rules.

They should only call themselves a developed country once they are able to abide by the rules.

Nip this wannabe dictator in the bud and haul him off to jail to show the world how easy it is to defend democracy (if the people value their freedoms)

North Korea also has a dictatorship and the country is run well.

If by "run well" you mean "in a perpetual state of dissarray with its brainwashed population dying of famine while the ruling class enriches itself with state-sponsored cyberattacks" then yeah, it's run well, I guess?

I am still really unclear as to why he declared martial law.

If you only followed Yoon through stories posted here you would assume he was doing fine, when in fact Yoon had become a lame duck president despised by the majority of the country.

His more base tendencies emerged when he decided he had had enough of losing and attempted to enact martial law, which ironically may bury him even deeper as former allies outside of Korea begin to distance themselves from him.

Does Korea even have a law to crack down on a sitting president (one of the powerful) who instigates a "riot" in the form of martial law and attempts to break the constitution?

And why couldn't Park Geun-hye be arrested while she was still in office? To begin with, it's not really clear what crime she was found guilty of.

Hasn't the Korean judiciary system interpreted the constitution too broadly?

That's why it's said that it's difficult to call it a country governed by laws.

To begin with, it's not really clear what crime she was found guilty of.

Here again if you just followed K politics while a pro US president like Park was in power through this site you would not be aware of their misdeeds.

In Park's case there were various things such as allowing personal friends who had never run for office to wield political power.

Lock him up.

@proxy

I am still really unclear as to why he declared martial law.

Yoon is an avid Youtube fake news conspiracy channel watcher.

Yoon really really believed the Chinese hacked the election commission server leading to the opposition's near absolute majority victory as claimed by conspiracy Youtubers and went out to prove it by stealing the servers.

@Agent_Neo

Does Korea even have a law to crack down on a sitting president 

Yes, that's why Yoon is sitting in jail right now.

If you say it's wrong, there's no point unless you point out the content.

True democracy is something that is changed through elections, not by surrounding the Blue House with hundreds of thousands of people and threatening the president to bring him down.

In the end, Park Geun-hye stepped down as president because she felt her life was in danger. Her father, the former president, was also assassinated.

However, the hundreds of thousands of people surrounding the Blue House do not represent all the people.

Koreans do not understand this, which is why they are said to not understand democracy.

@Agent_Neo

In the end, Park Geun-hye stepped down as president

You are confused. Park was removed from office by the constitutional court, not resigned.

In the end, Park Geun-hye stepped down as president because she felt her life was in danger. Her father, the former president, was also assassinated.

Shows how wildly misinformed people on this site can be regarding Korea lol

It is true that Park Geun-hye was impeached and removed from office by the National Assembly, but she could have easily gone into exile like the first Korean president, so why didn't she do so?

She continued to remain as president despite knowing she would be removed by the National Assembly, so whether she was forced to step down or called it a resignation is entirely up to your own subjective opinion.

In the first place, was Park Geun-hye so brainless that she couldn't comprehend being removed from office? I can't understand what Koreans think at all.

Korean historical perception is so far removed from fact that they understand the annexation by Japan to have been colonization.

It's a shame she can only learn fantasy history lol