{"id":68144,"date":"2024-12-04T21:00:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T12:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/04\/south-korea-seoul-martial-law-democracy-not-supposed-to-work-like-this"},"modified":"2024-12-04T21:00:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T12:00:24","slug":"democracy-isnt-supposed-to-work-like-this-disbelief-in-seoul-in-wake-of-martial-law-upheaval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68144","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Democracy isn\u2019t supposed to work like this\u2019: disbelief in Seoul in wake of martial law upheaval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defiant citizens come out in the South Korean capital to voice anger and dismay over actions of President Yoon and demand his resignation<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/04\/south-korea-martial-law-president-yoon-suk-yeol-calls-to-resign-ntwnfb\">Full story: South Korea\u2019s president, Yoon Suk Yeol, facing impeachment after martial law shock<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2024\/dec\/04\/south-korea-crisis-live-blog-martial-law-yoon-suk-yeol-impeachment-calls\">Live updates: South Korea\u2019s political crisis<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The mood outside South Korea\u2019s parliament was a mix of anger and bewilderment on Wednesday afternoon, hours after President Yoon Suk Yeol\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/04\/south-korea-martial-law-president-yoon-suk-yeol-calls-to-resign-ntwnfb\"> shocking, albeit thwarted, declaration of martial law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The pre-dawn events caught many South Koreans off guard. Those who had slept through it awoke to the news that their democracy had faced its gravest challenge since the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/04\/south-korea-seoul-martial-law-democracy-not-supposed-to-work-like-this\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defiant citizens come out in the South Korean capital to voice anger and dismay over actions of President Yoon and demand his resignationFull story: South Korea\u2019s president, Yoon Suk Yeol, facing impeachment after martial law shockLive updates: South K&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2929,"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":[41,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/68144","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\/2929"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68159,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68144\/revisions\/68159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}