From what I understand, the military high command supported Yoon even after the assembly voted down martial law. If that’s true, didn’t he have everything to go through with the coup?
Are you asking how Yoon could have had a better coup?
I don’t support him, if that’s what you’re asking. I’m just curious about sociology and politics. :)
It’s absolutely too early to say what support he had or thought he had.
He didn’t really know for sure, either, I don’t think. That’s why it’s weird to me that he just ‘surrendered’. Was what happened completely legal this way? Can he not go to prison?
It’s absolutely too early to say. The SK courts will bear this out. Anything you’d hear in this forum or the news is just conjecture.
True. I’m not taking any takes here to be definitely true. I was just interested in other people’s perspectives until we get a proper response. :)
I looked at the username. Just in case.
Sorry, not that well-versed in the ecosystem here yet. What could my username have meant?
I meant just in case it was something like “Yoon_the_coon420” or something like that.
Ah, I see. I thought there was a community of infamous South Korean conservatives or something.
edit: typo
Imho no. Apparently (I have not dealt with South Korean politics before this) he was quite unpopular to beginn with. Blatantly disregarding the elected parlament would have destroyed any resemblance of a “lawful” takeover and might have provoked protest from all parts of society.
Also afaik saying he lifted martial law after the assembly vote is wrong in the sense that martial law was lifted by the assembly already. Pressing on would have put him in breach of the constitution. Of course he probably couldn’t care less but keeping the appearance of still being a democracy is import. Most autocracy’s nowadays work this way. People get to choose but the guy on top gets to pick the options.
People get to choose but the guy on top gets to pick the options.
Managed Democracy!
If the people voted by filling out Facebook quizzes
Representative Democracy.
If Representative Democracy isn’t democracy, then Switzerland is the only true democracy.
I do struggle to feel that representative democracy is true democracy, because it usually struggles to represent what people really want.
In the age of computers we should be voting for everything as a collective.
Eh… maybe not. People can get tricked into voting for stupid policies. California literally voted in a proposition that classify “gig app” (like Uber or Doordash) workers as “Independent Contractors” rather than “Employees”, because of a lot of propaganda.
Should we? At that point, the real decisions are made by those with the most charismatic performance.
What pure democracy assumes is that the competent decision will be more popular.
Maybe he didn’t? Power was on in parliament entire time, internet wasn’t cut off, no curfew, no news stations takeover, you know things you can expect in a coup didn’t happen
My Uneducated Assumption as a non- South Korean: (Correct me if I’m wrong)
He probably would’ve end up jailed anyways because there would be infighting within the military about whether to listen to the president or recognize the legislature that had just revoked martial law.
The supreme court would also side with the legislature and declare that the martial law was unlawful. (The supreme court also unanimously convicted a former president of impeachment)
2 Branches vs 1 person would make the president’s order seem less legitimate.
There would also be mass protests and maybe even riots.
The president’s approval rating is low. There would be a lot of protesters. It would be chaos.
I assume he just wanted to give up and hope for a lighter sentence.
Knowing nothing about anything it almost seems like the mindset of a person who survives a suicide attempt where they realize the gravity of their decision only after they make it
