Political turmoil and division have rocked South Korea over the past four months since now-former President Yoon Suk Yool made a doomed bid to declare martial law that lasted mere hours. As the military stood on the steps of the National Assembly, legislators struck down the declaration then impeached Yoon weeks later. Now that the Constitutional Court has ruled on the impeachment, ousting Yoon for what it called a “betrayal of trust” and violation of the law, the divided nation is set for a new presidential election in just 60 days. What precedents have been set and how does Korea’s past inform its future? In this episode, professor of Korean history Kyung Moon Hwang joins TaiwanPlus to discuss democracy, history and the state of governance in South Korea and beyond.
