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https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/06/urgent-appeal-stop-the-judicial-coup-in-south-korea-and-defend-democracy/
>Urgent Appeal: Stop the Judicial Coup in South Korea and Defend Democracy
<On May 1, 2025, South Korea’s Supreme Court issued a politically charged decision that overturned the acquittal of opposition leader Lee Jae-myung, the leading candidate in the upcoming presidential election, on charges of election law violation. Lee had endured intense repression under the administration of impeached former president Yoon Suk-yeol, having been subjected to investigation by over 200 government prosecutors, but despite countless allegations, these nearly non-stop investigations failed to result in a conviction. Now, with South Korea gearing up for a historic snap election on June 3, 2025 following Yoon’s ouster, authorities are once again attempting to convict Lee to remove him from the political playing field.

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https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/1195355.html
>Supreme Court overturns acquittal of Lee Jae-myung, remands case to Seoul High Court
<With this, Lee’s acquittal is overturned, and the case returns to the Seoul High Court. As it is unlikely that a final verdict will be reached in the case before the June 3 presidential election, Lee will face no formal restrictions on his candidacy. But the ruling once again highlights the many legal battles in which Lee is embroiled as he once again gears up for a presidential campaign.

https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/1196141.html
>[Breaking] Seoul High Court delays trial of Lee Jae-myung until after presidential election
<The bench of the Seoul High Court that was assigned the case after it had been remanded by the Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it had changed the date of the first trial for the case to June 18, after the June 3 election, “for the sake of guaranteeing the defendant, a presidential candidate, equal opportunity in the election campaign and to dispel controversy over the fairness of the trial.”

https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/1196224.html
>PPP ratchets up pressure on Kim Moon-soo to unify candidacy with Han
<The People Power Party (PPP) announced Tuesday that it will conduct a survey of all party members regarding a unity ticket on Wednesday. The announcement appeared to target the party’s nominee, Kim Moon-soo, who has effectively refused to form a unity ticket with Han Duck-soo, who is running as an independent.

https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/english_editorials/1196445.html
>[Column] The PPP implosion we all saw coming
<People Power Party leadership is ferociously butting heads with its presidential candidate, Kim Moon-soo, over the issue of unifying behind a single conservative candidate in the upcoming election. Tensions are high as party leadership unilaterally attempts to swap out Kim, the winner of the PPP presidential primary, with former acting President Han Duck-soo.

>>2257044
Doesn't this sort of thing happen quite frequently in South Korea: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93gqwek5jyo

Does South Korea even have a communist party.

>>2260491
Not really. There is the banned Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front though.

>The National Security Act is a South Korean law enforced since 1948 with the stated purpose "to secure the security of the State and the subsistence and freedom of nationals, by regulating any anticipated activities compromising the safety of the State."
>behavior or speeches in favor of the North Korean regime or communism can be punished by the National Security Law.

Also this happened semi-recently:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_South_Korean_sabotage_plot
>On 5 September 2013, South Korea's intelligence agency, NIS, accused UPP lawmaker Lee Seok-ki of plotting a pro-North Korean rebellion. The case triggered a political and media firestorm in a nation where even praising the North can be considered a crime. He allegedly led a May 2013 meeting, comprised partly of UPP members, in which reference was made to the prospect of attacking South Korean infrastructure in the event that recently heightened tensions between the Koreas led to war.

>>2260491
There's demsoc parties like: Korean Democratic Labor Party & Labor Party, also progressives: Future Party

>>2260487
Yeah, the South is not a very stable "democracy." Right-wing presidents engage in all sorts of corruption and commit abuses of power, there are scandals, sometimes there are impeachments, then the following administration has to clean up the mess. Makes sense in light of the fact that for most of its exitence the Republic of Korea was an overt capitalist military dictatorship which employed collaborators with Japan.

>>2261389
Once you understand the whole purpose of SK is to make capitalism "look good" in the global competition of hearts and minds, everything makes sense. All the dirty tricks used to make SK look good are employed. If the US falls, SK will fold like a plastic bag. Make that's what NK is hoping for.

>>2261386
based video

>>2257044
intestine bourgeois conflict, couldn't care less tbqh

>>2261389
The South Korean presidency is actually a honeypot to lure in criminals. They call it the president-to-prison pipeline.

South Korea is definitely up there in my "worst capitalist states even by capitalist standards" list.

>>2261550
They made flavored Soju and the revenge trilogy though

In the struggle among the conservatives over their presidential candidate, the faction loyal to Yoon engineered the candidacy process to choose the former acting president, but that has been thwarted by the regular members of the party.

https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/1196671.html
>Why the PPP is trying to drive its own candidate out of the presidential race
<The conservatives are unlikely to win the upcoming presidential election, meaning that the contest itself is more concerned with the leadership of the party going forward

https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/1196665.html
>People Power Party’s attempt to form single presidential ticket devolves into chaos
<Negotiations between Kim Moon-soo and Han Duck-soo over merging their candidacies for president ended without a deal for the second day in a row on Thursday. With Kim and People Power Party leadership playing a game of chicken over the timing of such a decision to merge tickets, the party is going so far as to suggest it may forcibly replace Kim as its candidate by Sunday, the deadline for candidate registration with the National Election Commission.

https://www.chosun.com/english/national-en/2025/05/10/4T7CARL7U5GUJKRPOSR4UMJM6I/
>Kim Moon-soo ousted; PPP picks Han Duk-soo for presidential race
<Kim calls move a 'political coup'; Han urges party unity

https://www.chosun.com/english/national-en/2025/05/11/BVUJ4UCBRVFJZFWEQLDSDLWXVU/
>PPP reverses candidate switch after party vote, chief resigns
<Internal vote blocks last-minute replacement with Han Duk-soo

>>2260491
HAHAHAHAHA

The conservative People Power Party candidate Kim Moon-soo was a labor activist who suffered repression and brutal torture at the hands of the Park Chung-hee regime before making a turn to the right during the democratic era.

https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20250503002000315
>Born into a poor family in the southeastern city of Yeongcheon in 1951, Kim entered Seoul National University's business school in 1970.
<He was expelled from the elite university twice – over his involvement in nationwide student protests in 1971 and an incident related to the student movement three years later – before eventually receiving his degree in 1994.
>In 1974, Kim was arrested and indicted alongside about 180 students on charges of attempting to overthrow the Park Chung-hee administration and establish a communist regime. The case, widely seen as politically motivated, ended in acquittals, and the participants were officially recognized as pro-democracy activists in 2004.

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https://www.hani.co.kr/arti/society/society_general/1193631.html
>Yoon Seok-yeol, who was counterattacked for “not being loyal to people”… Praise for his testimony as “a true soldier”
<Kim Hyung-ki, Special Forces Battalion Commander's Court Statement Becomes a Hot Topic
>“I am not loyal to a person. I have been loyal to an organization. That organization gave me the mission to protect the country and its people.”

<At trial on the 21st, Battalion Commander Kim testified that he received an order from former Special Warfare Command 1st Airborne Brigade Commander Lee Sang-hyun to drag lawmakers out of the main conference hall during martial law, and that he heard the president say, “Get them out even if it means breaking down the door.” He also testified that he did not carry out the order he received from the former brigade commander, saying, “I could not make the right judgment on whether it was a legitimate order, so I did not inform (the troops under his command).”

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/politics/20250524/ppps-kim-moon-soo-meets-with-ex-president-park-geun-hye-asks-for-support-ahead-of-election
>PPP's Kim Moon-soo meets with ex-President Park Geun-hye, asks for support ahead of election

https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20250527003451315
>PPP's Kim meets ex-President Lee, asks for support as election looms

>Korea's impeached and dismissed ex-presidents are 100% for Kim Moon-soo.

>>2260491
>>2261386
also progressive and nazdemsoc: Progressive Party (South Korea, 2017)

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>>2260491
Yes, they do. It's the People's Democracy Party. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Democracy_Party_(South_Korea)

>>2290069
>the communist party cannot even call itself communist
south korea is a fucking shithole

>>2290062
>>2261386
I never really understood why don't these parties merge or at least form a coalition? Just seem like sectarian dispute that divides them.


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