{"id":68561,"date":"2024-12-27T21:02:41","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T12:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/27\/south-korea-constitutional-court-parliament-saga"},"modified":"2024-12-27T21:02:41","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T12:02:41","slug":"south-koreas-second-impeachment-in-two-weeks-is-latest-twist-in-political-saga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68561","title":{"rendered":"South Korea\u2019s second impeachment in two weeks is latest twist in political saga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Removal of acting president Han Duck-soo is part of a rancorous battle for the country\u2019s constitutional future<\/p>\n<p>For the fourth time this month, South Korea\u2019s parliament has become the arena for a rancorous battle for the country\u2019s political future.<\/p>\n<p>Safeguarding the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2012\/sep\/25\/gwangju-biennale-south-korea-democracy\">hard-won rights and freedoms<\/a> South Koreans have enjoyed for almost four decades is a lofty aim \u2013 and supported by the vast majority of voters \u2013 but the scenes inside the national assembly have been a reminder of how thin the line can be between democracy and rule by force.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/27\/south-korea-constitutional-court-parliament-saga\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Removal of acting president Han Duck-soo is part of a rancorous battle for the country\u2019s constitutional futureFor the fourth time this month, South Korea\u2019s parliament has become the arena for a rancorous battle for the country\u2019s political future.Safegu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"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-68561","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\/68561","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\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68562,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68561\/revisions\/68562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}