More and more protesters are gathering near the presidential residence in South Korea in an attempt to stop 2000+ police officers trying to arrest President Yoon.

The president is protected by a military unit of around 200 soldiers.

The Stop the Steal movement is growing 🇰🇷 pic.twitter.com/nPQdIaR0Op

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) January 14, 2025

🇰🇷BREAKING NEWS:

South Korea’s ousted President Yoon has been arrested on charges of treason. pic.twitter.com/IX3hXCfPJe

— Update NEWS (@UpdateNews724) January 15, 2025

I’ll be this dickhead is wishing seppuku was a part of Korean culture right about now.

Ritual suicide to preserve the honor of one’s family has never been more appropriate than right here.

What a total disgrace.

The Guardian:

South Korea’s impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol, has been arrested and is to undergo questioning over his ill-fated declaration of martial law last month, anti-corruption investigators said on Wednesday, bringing to an end an early-morning standoff outside his official residence in Seoul.

Yoon remained defiant, however, saying he had agreed to cooperate with anti-corruption authorities to “avoid bloodshed” after the latest chapter in a saga that has rocked South Korean politics and triggered concern among its allies. Yoon said the rule of law had “completely collapsed” after his detention.

“President Yoon has decided to personally appear at the Corruption Investigation Office (CIO) today,” his lawyer Seok Dong-hyeon said on Facebook, adding that the impeached leader would also make a speech. But investigators announced shortly after that Yoon had been arrested.

Reports said a convoy of vehicles, one of which was presumably carrying Yoon, had left the presidential residence and later arrived at the offices of the anti-corruption agency heading the probe. His detention makes him the first sitting president in the nation’s history to be arrested.

Mind you, most of the presidents have been utterly corrupt members of bizarre cults.

Investigators had entered Yoon’s residence early on Wednesday in a fresh attempt to execute a warrant for his arrest over allegations that his declaration of martial law amounted to insurrection – a crime that can come with life imprisonment or even the death penalty.

Streets around the compound were sealed off with police buses and thousands of officers were present.

But crowds of Yoon supporters, most of them elderly, were gathered near the residence gates and around makeshift stages hosting speeches describing the arrest warrant “fake” and calling for the arrest of opposition leader Lee Jae-myung.

Braving the freezing early morning, many held up red light sticks, US flags and banners in both Korean and English, including “Stop the steal” and “CCP out”, embracing unfounded claims of electoral manipulation and alleged Chinese interference – despite the fact that no major election observers or courts have raised concerns about last April’s parliamentary vote that saw the opposition secure a decisive victory.

Nearby, a smaller group of pro-impeachment protesters, kept apart from Yoon’s supporters by a police cordon, was chanting “Enter! Enter! Arrest him!”

These Koreans are completely mind-fucked.

The US are the good guys?

The people who did this to your boys:

They’re the good guys?

They’re your friends, trying to help you… fight the Chinese leftists?

It’s a complicated history, but if you want to see what a country looks like when the US invades your country and then communists win, maybe go check out Vietnam.

It’s a really nice country and it doesn’t have these social issues. Their birthrate isn’t great, but it’s three times the birthrate of South Korea.

They don’t have this:

It was more or less an identical situation, where the US invaded an Asian country to stop communism. It’s just that in Vietnam, they failed. So Vietnam isn’t split in half with an ultra militarized DMZ driving everyone insane.

Anyway, I predicted that Korean society would completely unravel if Squid Game 2 sucked, and though I haven’t watched it, I’m sure it sucked. I might watch it at some point. But how could it not suck? The director didn’t even want to make it but they made him an offer he could not refuse.

This is just a complete mess. Like Taiwan, South Korea is an American Skinner Box where the Americans can just do anything to the people there. They have the entire right-wing of the country thinking the sickening Jewnited Snakes are the good guys, and somehow they are incapable of looking at the obvious fact that North Korea does not have this:

It’s sad.

I’ve had a lot of nonwhite friends, but the only really close nonwhite friend I ever had (frankly, the only close non-Irish diaspora friend I had) was Korean. He was neurotic as hell, and what I’ve come to understand is that this is the case with all South Koreans. They have been totally driven into pathological disorders by this ridiculous situation where the US tells them they are going to get bombed into oblivion by their brothers and sisters to the north, even whilst the only reason the North is militarized is that the US militarized the South.

I mean, I understand that all Asians dislike the Chinese to various extents, and I’m familiar with the reasons behind that. I’m actually not familiar with the reasons South Koreans don’t like the Chinese, as they are actually complaining about the Chinese government, which is not something I’ve ever heard from any other group of Asians. They all complain about Chinese people, but Koreans are the only ones complaining about “the CCP,” because of this overwhelming American influence. But seriously, even the Japs don’t complain about “the CCP,” they just generally dislike Chinese people.

In my experience, Chinese are gentlemanly and kind, but Asians have different concepts of politeness, and while they are similar from Korea to Thailand, Chinese don’t have these same customs, and this is generally the source of the animosity. It has nothing at all to do with the Chinese government, which if it is thought of at all is viewed much more positively than the Chinese people in general.

Korea needs to reunify in order to be fixed, and the US will never allow that.

I still don’t understand this Yoon coup, but it does now seem like the US was okay with it and might have supported it for some reason.

As long as the South is occupied by the US, the right will be screaming nonsense about China and the rest of the country will be doing this:

This is a big narrative problem, isn’t it?

Aren’t we supposed to believe that everyone in North Korea is oppressed and longs to go to South Korea so they can become a suicidal incel?

That’s certainly what I was led to believe. And yet soliders, with an open opportunity to join the South, have no interest in doing so.

AP:

South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers on Monday that two North Korean soldiers who were captured by Ukrainian forces while fighting alongside Russian forces in Russia’s Kursk border region haven’t expressed a desire to seek asylum in South Korea.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he’s willing to hand over the soldiers to North Korea if the country’s authoritarian leader, Kim Jong Un, arranges for an exchange with Ukrainian prisoners of war in Russia. Zelenskyy said one of the North Korean soldiers wishes to stay in Ukraine while the other wants to return to his country, which was consistent with interview videos released by his government. “If Kim Jong Un even remembers these citizens of his and is capable of organizing an exchange for our warriors being held in Russia, we are ready to transfer such soldiers. Undoubtedly there will be more POWs from North Korea,” Zelenskyy said in an address late Sunday. He said in a separate posting on the social media platform X that “there may be other options” for North Korean prisoners who don’t wish to go back.

In a closed-door briefing at South Korea’s National Assembly, the National Intelligence Service confirmed its participation in the questioning of the North Korean soldiers by Ukrainian authorities. The agency said the soldiers haven’t expressed a request to resettle in South Korea, according to two lawmakers who attended the meeting.

Here’s what I would want to know: do any of the South Koreas want to defect to the North?

Isn’t “sex” enough of a reason that most of the young males in South Korea would prefer to move to the North? Just as a basic matter, aside from the complexities of political systems, the North Korean system allows for men to get married and have children, while the Southern system prevents that.

What more would a young man need to know?

Zileienskiyiye is very proud of himself, capturing these North Koreans.

Our soldiers have captured North Korean military personnel in the Kursk region. Two soldiers, though wounded, survived and were transported to Kyiv, where they are now communicating with the Security Service of Ukraine.

This was not an easy task: Russian forces and other North… pic.twitter.com/5J0hqbarP6

— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) January 11, 2025

In addition to the first captured soldiers from North Korea, there will undoubtedly be more. It’s only a matter of time before our troops manage to capture others. There should be no doubt left in the world that the Russian army is dependent on military assistance from North… pic.twitter.com/4RyCfUoHoC

— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) January 12, 2025

Great job, my neo-Nazi Jewish buddy.

Really nice work, capturing two soliders.

Previously: South Korea: Chief of Presidential Security Still Blocking Controversial Arrest of President

This saga is already boring.

If Yoon doesn’t do another coup soon, I’m done with his boring ass.

I don’t care if he is an incel, I can’t tolerate being this bored anymore.

Reuters:

The security chief of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, under investigation for blocking Yoon’s arrest, resigned on Friday and said any further efforts to detain the ex-leader must avoid bloodshed.

Yoon’s short-lived declaration of martial law on Dec. 3 has plunged one of Asia’s most vibrant democracies into a period of unprecedented political turbulence.

As a top Court deliberates over lawmakers’ decision to impeach Yoon, who is holed up at his hillside residence, anti-graft officers have also opened a criminal investigation for possible insurrection.

Those officers were last week stopped from bringing Yoon in for questioning in a six-hour standoff with the Presidential Security Service (PPS), headed by Park Chong-jun.

Investigators have a warrant for Yoon’s arrest and have said they are determined to detain him for questioning.

Park, a former senior police official, was questioned by police on Friday over his role in last week’s standoff and his office announced he had submitted his resignation.

As he arrived at the police headquarters in downtown Seoul, he told reporters that the current attempt to arrest a sitting president was wrong and that “there should not be any physical clash or bloodshed under any circumstances.”

Acting President Choi Sang-mok, just two weeks in office and thrust into a political cauldron, on Friday called for a fresh way to resolve the stalemate between investigators and Yoon’s security.

He proposed parliament prepare a bill to appoint a special prosecutor. Earlier, Choi had vetoed an opposition-backed special prosecutor bill to probe the martial law declaration, saying it had no guarantee an independent person would be appointed to lead the probe.

Yoon still has a lot of supporters.

Why he didn’t tell those supporters to get out in the streets and fight his enemies after he declared martial law, I have no idea and no one has any idea.

He choked, and chokers are always losers.

Nothing is stopping him from doing another coup attempt, and no one can explain why he doesn’t just do that.

🚨🇰🇷 SEOUL SNOWSTORM CAN’T COOL HEATED PROTESTS OVER PRESIDENT YOON

Thousands braved Seoul’s snow to protest impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol, split between arresting him or playing defense as his insurrection warrant expires Monday night.

Yoon, fresh off a failed martial law… https://t.co/oK0tfcirOd pic.twitter.com/CayXaDfogH

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) January 5, 2025

Please refrain from insulting remarks.

Reuters:

The chief of security for South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said on Sunday he could not cooperate with efforts to arrest the impeached leader, in remarks that could push the political crisis towards another high-stakes confrontation.

With a warrant for Yoon’s arrest on grounds of insurrection set to expire at midnight (1500 GMT) on Monday, the official, Park Chong-jun, cited the legal debate surrounding the warrant as the reason for the lack of cooperation.

“Please refrain from insulting remarks that the presidential security service has been reduced to a private army,” he said in a statement, adding that it had provided security to all presidents for 60 years, regardless of political affiliation.

Park Chong-jun

The comments came after a Seoul court rejected a complaint from Yoon’s lawyers that the arrest warrant was illegal and invalid, the Yonhap news agency said. Telephone calls to the court to seek comment went unanswered.

“Judging the legitimacy of any legal interpretation and execution is difficult,” Seok Dong-hyeon, a lawyer advising Yoon, said on Facebook.

“If there is an error in the legality of law enforcement against the incumbent president, it will be a big problem.”

Yoon became the first incumbent South Korean president to face arrest for his botched attempt to declare martial law on Dec. 3, which triggered political chaos in Asia’s fourth-largest economy and a key U.S. ally.

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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was set to arrive in Seoul on Sunday for talks with senior officials.

On Friday, Yoon’s presidential security service and military troops had blocked criminal investigators from arresting him in a six-hour standoff.

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Yoon’s lawyers have said the warrant was unconstitutional because the anti-graft force leading his criminal investigation has no authority under South Korean law to investigate any case involving insurrection accusations.

It looks like the government is giving him a chance to do another coup.

He could easily get it right on the second try.

We Talk: South Korean protesters’ take on #Yoon‘s arrest pic.twitter.com/x1lrcGRH8B

— CGTN (@CGTNOfficial) January 5, 2025

It’s not even a statistically relevant increase.

But hey, maybe that incel president was doing something worthwhile?

Too bad he choked when he tried to make himself dictator!

Korea Times:

Korea saw a rise in registered births in 2024 for the first time in nearly a decade, suggesting a possible shift in the nation’s demographic trend. The Ministry of the Interior and Safety announced on Friday that 242,334 births were registered last year, reflecting a 3.1 percent increase from 2023 and breaking an eight-year streak of continuous declines.

“While our population has been decreasing for five consecutive years, the increase in registered births for the first time in nine years is a positive sign,” said Kim Min-jae, deputy minister of the interior and safety. “To sustain this reversal in birth trends, it is essential for relevant agencies to collaborate on improving childcare conditions and devising multifaceted support measures.”

The situation is still apocalyptic, but slightly less so

In 2024, male births (123,923) outnumbered female births (118,411) by 5,512. However, despite the increase in births, natural population decline persisted, as deaths rose to 360,757, marking a 1.93 percent increase from the previous year. The resulting population decrease slightly narrowed to 118,423, compared to 118,881 in 2023.

…

The largest proportion of the population in Korea was individuals in their 50s, who made up 17 percent, followed by those in their 60s (15.27 percent) and 40s (15.08 percent). In contrast, children under 10 represented only 6.13 percent of the population. The elderly population (65 years and older) increased by 5.41 percent, reaching 10.25 million, nearly double the youth population (0–14 years), which declined by 3.52 percent to 5.46 million. The working-age population (15–64 years) also saw a decrease of 1.21 percent, dropping to 35.49 million.

Interestingly, the much better Korea does not have this problem to anywhere near the extent of this shitty Korea.

However, Kim takes reproduction very seriously, and speaks directly to the birthers.

]]> https://www.anglinarchive.com/2025/01/03/south-korean-authorities-give-up-on-trying-to-arrest-yoon-over-failed-coup/ Fri, 03 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Yoon might have failed at his coup, but it looks like he should be able to weasel out of consequences for it.

CNN:

South Korean investigators have suspended efforts to enforce an arrest warrant for embattled President Yoon Suk Yeol on Friday, hours into a standoff in which authorities tried to detain the leader following his short-lived martial law declaration.

Some 80 police and investigators entered the presidential residence compound in Seoul early morning and were blocked by the presidential security team from carrying out the warrant, South Korea’s Corruption Investigation Office (CIO) told CNN – deepening their showdown with defiant and embattled Yoon.

The CIO called off the arrest warrant enforcement Friday afternoon citing the safety of the people on the ground, according to a statement. The warrant, which is valid until January 6, remains in effect and could be extended.

Heavy police presence was seen on streets near Yoon’s residence as hundreds gathered to support the leader, who plunged the nation into political chaos with his swiftly overturned declaration one month ago.

Yeah, he still has supporters willing to go out into the street and protest in his defense.

He should just do another coup.

Why not?

The president is wanted for questioning in multiple investigations, including accusations of leading an insurrection – a crime punishable by life imprisonment or even the death penalty.

A court earlier this week approved the warrant for Yoon – the first time such action has been taken against a sitting president. In response, the presidential security team said that security measures “will be taken in accordance with due process.”

Yoon, himself a former prosecutor, has refused to answer three summonses by investigators in recent weeks asking for his cooperation, according to the CIO.

After suspending efforts to detain Yoon, the CIO expressed “deep regret” at “the suspect’s attitude of not following the process by law” and said they would decide on next steps.

…

Crowds of diehard supporters were gathered near the presidential residence despite frigid temperatures, with some camping there overnight. Many of those backing the leader – widely seen as a conservative firebrand and staunch US ally tough on China and North Korea – held signs with the phrase “Stop the steal” printed in English, while others waved American flags.

Other supporters held placards describing his arrest as treason, while some shouted that they should push through the barricade set up by police and chanted: “Arrest the CIO.”

These rabid supporters are the reason they canceled trying to enforce the warrant. That’s the only reason they would stop.

Apparently, there is some kind of analysis that shows the situation is incredibly volatile, and Yoon’s supporters could start causing a severe ruckus.

He’s apparently given up on his dream of establishing an incel dictatorship in the country, and is using this potentially violent supporters to maneuver out of facing some kind of criminal charges. What he should do is just declare martial law again, and not choke this time. There was literally no reason for him to stop the first time. Obviously there were going to be protests. How would he think there wouldn’t be protests? Protests don’t matter if you have control of the cops and military and you have supporters who will go out into the street and counter-protest.

He really screwed this up, badly.

This is what happens when you choke.

If you’re going to go all-in, you have to be ready to die. If you’re not ready to die, don’t go all-in.

You can’t declare martial law and attempt to install yourself as dictator then back down and apologize. This is not reasonable behavior.

RT:

A court in Seoul has approved a request from law enforcement authorities to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol, according to Yonhap. This marks the first time in the country’s history that a sitting leader has faced an arrest warrant.

South Korea’s Seoul Western District Court issued the warrant against Yoon on Tuesday on charges of masterminding the December 3 martial law declaration, orchestrating insurrection, and abusing power. The Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) filed the detention warrant after Yoon ignored three summons to appear for questioning regarding the short-lived martial law.

The court’s decision gives the CIO 48 hours to take Yoon into custody for questioning, but uncertainties remain regarding the execution of the warrant. The Presidential Security Service had previously blocked investigators from entering both the presidential office compound and Yoon’s official residence over alleged security concerns.

Despite having presidential immunity from criminal prosecution, this privilege does not extend to insurrection or treason charges. Yoon’s defense team argues that the CIO lacks the legal authority to investigate insurrection, a charge typically handled by the police. However, CIO chief Oh Dong-woon maintains that a court-issued detention or arrest warrant cannot be legally obstructed, even by the president.

I’m sure that as soon as he regretted doing martial law, he regretted regretting it.

He had control of the police and the military, and could have ordered them to just start gunning down protesters and summarily executing politicians. Maybe it would have failed, but at least it would have been fun and hilarious and by far the best thing to happen in South Korea since Squid Game 1 (look, I’m not even watching 2, don’t even ask me about it).

I don’t remember for sure, but I’m pretty sure this guy is some kind of incel who wanted to force women to have sex.

I’m just joking, obviously I remember that. Here’s an article in The Economist about how he went into politics to stop women from mocking men with small penises on the internet.

He’s based.

Or he was, before the dumbest fail-coup in world history.

He was like “it’s happening,” but then was like, “no, actually, it can’t happen.”

He could have made billions die.

He could have allied with the Taliban in some kind of International Window-Blockers Coalition.

It could have been glorious.

There’s a life lesson here:

Never choke.

For those who don’t know, “super-aged” is only one step away from “ultra-aged,” which is itself only a step away from “extinct.”

Korea Times:

Korea has formally become a “super-aged” society as the share of its population aged 65 or over surpassed 20 percent, the interior ministry said Tuesday, as the country copes with a demographic crisis of a rapidly aging population and low births.

As of Monday, the number of Koreans aged 65 or older stood at 10.24 million, accounting for 20.0 percent of the country’s total population of 51.22 million, according to the ministry.

The United Nations classifies countries where more than 7 percent of the population is 65 or older as an aging society, those with over 14 percent as an aged society and those with more than 20 percent as a super-aged society.

The age group in Korea has gradually increased over the years, standing at 4.94 million in 2008.

It accounted for 10 percent of the population in 2008 before surpassing 15 percent in 2019 and reaching 19.05 percent in January this year.

The authorities in countries with destroyed birthrates continue to look around in confusion and talk about about “economic issues,” despite the fact that the countries with the collapsing birthrates are the richest in the world.

The reason is “women’s rights” (false concept). It’s very obvious to anyone with eyes that if you give women the “right” to make their own sexual decisions, they will go on sexual adventures for as long as possible.

If you want the birthrates to go up, you have to remove “women’s rights.” There is not another solution here.

If Shit Korea outlawed K-Pop, the birthrate would double in minutes.

This shit is such poison.

Replace that with this:

Then see what happens.

]]> https://www.anglinarchive.com/2024/12/30/nearly-200-dead-in-korean-boeing-crash/ Mon, 30 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

BREAKING: New video shows moment Boeing 737-800 plane carrying 181 people onboard crashes at Muan International Airport in South Korea.
pic.twitter.com/konxWBpnWy

— AZ Intel (@AZ_Intel_) December 29, 2024

Yikes.

That video is nuts.

I’m starting to wonder if there might be a problem with Boeing.

RT:

A plane flown by Jeju Air belly-landed and exploded at Muan International Airport in South Korea on Sunday, killing 179. The Boeing 737-800 was carrying 181 people, and two of them have been rescued, Yonhap Agency wrote, citing authorities.

The disaster occurred shortly after 9 am local time, when the Boeing 737-800 was landing following a flight from Bangkok.

A video posted on social media shows the large aircraft skidding off the runway and bursting into flames.

According to local media, the authorities believe that the airliner was hit by a flock of birds, which caused its landing gear to malfunction.

The Korea Herald cited officials as saying that the plane crashed during its second attempt to land. After circling the airport, it attempted an emergency belly landing, without the landing gear fully extended.

How did two people survive?

Watch the video.

That is some kind of literal miracle.

This isn’t the first time a flock of birds has been blamed for Boing’s problems. I mean “Boeing’s problems.”

How do birds hit the landing gear though? Does that even make sense?

When this happens in America, you can blame maintenance issues, i.e., “black people and women.”

But that shouldn’t really be a problem in Korea. Most likely, Boeing is shipping in their scam fake parts.

These people were supposed to lead us into the space age.

South Korea’s parliament on Saturday failed to pass an #impeachment motion against President Yoon Suk-yeol as most of the ruling People Power Party lawmakers refused to vote on it. pic.twitter.com/sd8JSxdhn5

— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) December 7, 2024

South Korea’s main liberal opposition Democratic Party said Sunday that it will try to push for a vote to impeach President Yoon Suk-yeol every Saturday following a botched impeachment attempt. pic.twitter.com/DdcqivjT5j

— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) December 9, 2024

Previously: South Korea: Choker President Apologizes for Martial Law, Vows to Never Do It Again 

The sonovabitch pulled it off.

I’ll be damned.

Reuters:

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is still commander in chief and there is no disruption to the U.S. alliance, the defence ministry said on Monday after it was revealed Yoon was under criminal investigation for declaring martial law last week.

Yoon’s grip on power has come into question with dissent growing among senior military officers against the president, and his own party saying it would establish a task force to handle his eventual resignation.

While Yoon survived an impeachment vote in parliament on Saturday, his party’s decision to delegate presidential authority to the prime minister has plunged the key U.S. ally into a constitutional crisis.

Yoon has refused calls, including some from within his own ruling party, to resign, but his future looked more uncertain over the weekend when Yonhap news agency reported he was under criminal investigation for alleged treason.

Police were also considering banning him from leaving the country, Yonhap and other media reported on Monday.

Prosecutors on Sunday arrested ex-Defence Minister Kim Yong-hyun over his alleged role in the declaration of martial law, Yonhap reported.

They’re saying the prime minister has the power now, but if that were the case, the prime minister would just remove the president. Yoon still has the power, and he has only one option: to declare martial law again, and this time hold the line and start summarily executing politicians and protesters.

Obviously, no one really has that big of a problem with this, given that he was not impeached.

Worst case, he does it again and then apologizes again and nothing happens. If you can get away with it once, you can obviously get away with it twice.

We still have not found a conspiracy behind this situation, and it really seems like Yoon just wanted to be a dictator because he thought it would be simple. You don’t have to be a political expert to look at history and see that every democracy ends up with some kind of dictatorship. It’s just the natural flow of things.