{"id":68100,"date":"2024-12-04T05:47:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T20:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/03\/declaration-of-martial-law-awakens-ghosts-south-koreans-thought-were-laid-to-rest"},"modified":"2024-12-04T05:47:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T20:47:30","slug":"yoon-suk-yeols-gamble-on-nostalgia-for-authoritarianism-proves-foolhardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68100","title":{"rendered":"Yoon Suk Yeol\u2019s gamble on nostalgia for authoritarianism proves foolhardy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean president miscalculated by thinking some MPs would back his declaration of martial law<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2024\/dec\/03\/south-korea-declares-emergency-martial-law-yoon-suk-yeol-north-korea-latest-updates\">South Korea \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In attempting to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/03\/south-korean-president-declares-emergency-martial-law\">declare martial law<\/a>, South Korea\u2019s president, Yoon Suk Yeol, sought to awaken ghosts that the rest of the country thought had been laid to rest for good.<\/p>\n<p>The last time martial law was declared, in 1980, hundreds of people were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2012\/sep\/25\/gwangju-biennale-south-korea-democracy\">killed by the military dictator Chun Doo-hwan<\/a>, who sent protesters to a concentration camp for \u201cpurificatory education\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/03\/declaration-of-martial-law-awakens-ghosts-south-koreans-thought-were-laid-to-rest\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean president miscalculated by thinking some MPs would back his declaration of martial lawSouth Korea \u2013 latest updatesIn attempting to declare martial law, South Korea\u2019s president, Yoon Suk Yeol, sought to awaken ghosts that the rest of the co&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1573,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,40,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-north-korea","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1573"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68101,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68100\/revisions\/68101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}