{"id":68317,"date":"2024-12-15T01:46:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T16:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/14\/south-korea-president-yoon-suk-yeol-downfall-analysis"},"modified":"2024-12-15T01:46:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T16:46:03","slug":"how-south-koreas-president-sealed-his-own-downfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68317","title":{"rendered":"How South Korea\u2019s president sealed his own downfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yoon Suk Yeol\u2019s party offered him the chance of a dignified exit but he chose to double down on his martial law gambit<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/14\/south-korean-parliament-votes-to-impeach-president\">South Korean parliament votes to impeach president<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/14\/south-korea-president-yoon-suk-yeol-impeachment-what-happens-next\">What happens next after vote to impeach South Korea\u2019s president?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For Yoon Suk Yeol, last week\u2019s short-lived <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/03\/south-korean-president-declares-emergency-martial-law\">martial law declaration<\/a> wasn\u2019t just a catastrophic miscalculation \u2013 it was the culmination of a presidency that had been troubled from the start.<\/p>\n<p>When he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/09\/yoon-suk-yeol-elected-president-south-korea\">narrowly won the election<\/a> in March 2022, Yoon was already a divisive figure. The former prosecutor turned politician positioned himself as an arch-conservative, winning support particularly from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/11\/south-korea-gender-equality-anti-feminist-president-yoon-suk-yeol\">young male voters<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/07\/outcry-as-south-korean-president-tries-to-scrap-gender-equality-ministry-to-protect-women\">promising to abolish<\/a> the ministry for gender equality, claiming South Korean women did not face systemic discrimination.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/14\/south-korea-president-yoon-suk-yeol-downfall-analysis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yoon Suk Yeol\u2019s party offered him the chance of a dignified exit but he chose to double down on his martial law gambitSouth Korean parliament votes to impeach presidentWhat happens next after vote to impeach South Korea\u2019s president?For Yoon Suk Yeol, l&#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-68317","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\/68317","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=68317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68318,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68317\/revisions\/68318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}