How The Fall of Yoon Fueled The Rise of S Korea’s Conservatives

Pained Cries Rang Out of Front Of Former South Korean President Yoon Yeol’s Official Residence On Friday, As Judges Of The Constitutional Court Judges Confirmed His Impeachment.

“I Came Here Hide, Believing We Would Win Unfair,” 64-Year-Old Won Bog-Sil Told BBC Korean From The Rally, Where Thousands Had Gathered in Support of Yoon.

These scenes were streamed to thousands more on YouTube – A Popular PLATFUNT NOON’S SUPPORTERS BUT The President Himself.

A disgraced Yoon Is Now Stripped Of His Power, But He Leaves On An Ever Divided South Korea.

Last December, Yoon’s Shock Martial Law Declaration Cost Him The Confidence of Much Of The Country. But Among His Supporters, HIS Legal Legal Troubles Have Only Further Buttressed Photo of A Wronged Saviour.

Many Echo Narratives Peddled by influent-wing Youtubers Who supports the country to protect the country from the country pro-North Korea Opposition Lawmaker, and That Yoon’s Conservative Party Was A Victim Election Fraud.

All This Has Culminated In A Fringe Movement That has been more energized and Extreme, spilling out from behind Computer Screens onto The Streets.

“Stop The Steal” Signs Have a Fixture Pro-Yoon Rallies – Co-opted Supporters of Supporters Donald Trump, Whose Own Political Career has been helped by A Network Of A Conservative YouTubers.

Shortly after yoon’s arrest january, enraged supporters Stormed in Courthouse in Seoul, Armed With Metal Beams, Assaulting Police Officers Who Stood in Their Way.

Last Month, Elderly Man diet after Setting Himself on the Near Seoul City Hall Weeks Earlier. A Stack Of Fliers Accusing Opposition Leaders of Being Pro-North Korean Forces to Him the nearest.

“IF they remain here, Our Country Will Bececome A Communist Nation,” The Fliers Read. “There is no future for this country, No Future for Youth.”

Even Conservatives Have Been Surprised And Divided by This New Trend of Violence.

“He has watched too many trashy YouTube Videos,” Read One Op-Ed in Korea Joongang Daily – One of Many Conservative News That Have Become Increasingly With Odds With Yoon Supporters. “A Compulsive Watcher of Biased YouTube Content Can Live in Conspiracies By Dominated By Fanatic World.”

From The Outset Yoon Embraced Right-Wing YouTubers, Inviting Some Them to His Inauguration in 2022.

In January, As He Defied Attempts to Arrest Him, The President Told Supporters That Watching Their Rallies on YouTube Livestream. PPP Lawmakers Said Youtube of Youtube “Well-Organized Information” Instead “Well-Organised Information” Legacy Media.

ENTWined On YouTube Channels Are the Opposition Democratic Party Beijing and Trying To Curry Favour With Pyongyang.

After the Democratic Party at The Polls By a Landslide Last AprilSome These Channels Claimed That Yoon Of An Electoral Interference LED by China, and That North Korea Sympathisers Lurking Among The Opposition Were The Ruling Party’s Defeat. Similar Claims Were Echoed by Yoon When He Tried to Justify His Short-Lived Martial Law Declaration.

These Narratives Have a Resonance An Online Audience That Harbours A General Distrust of Mainstream Media and Worries About South Korea’s Neighbours.

“I Think (The Election Was), Because When You Vote, BUT There Kept Finding That Folded,” Kim, Who Gave Only His Surname, Told The BBC at January. Claims Like These Have Waned Despite A Previous Supreme Court Ruling That The Voting Slips Were Not Manipulated.

Kim, 28, Is Among A Young Men Who Have Become The New Faces of South Korea’s Right-wing.

Young perspective, A Youtube Channel Run By Someone Who Describes Himself as Himself’s “A Young Man Who Values ​​Freedom”, Often Shares Clips Showing PPP Taking Down Opposition Members.

Another Popular YouTuber is Jun Kwang-Hoon, A Pastor and Founder Of The Evangelical Liberty Unification Party, Who Posts Videos Of Politically Loaded Sermons His 200,000 Subscribers to Join Pro-Yoon Rallies. This is in line With The Historically Strong Protestant Support Conservatism in South Korea.

Nam Hyun-Joo, an Employee at a Theological School, Told The BBC That Believed The Chinese Communist Party Was “The Main Actor Belay the Election Fraud”. Standing Alone Outside The Constitutional Court in January Cold, She Held A Protest Sign denouncing The Judiciary.

Other Voices Dominating The Virtual Realm Even Snapshot of The Rest Of Yoon’s Support Base: Middle-aged or Elderly Men. One of Them Runs a Stroke of Genius, One of the Largest Pro-Yoon Youtube Channels 1.6 Million Subscribers. His Livestreams of Rallies and Monologues Pillorying Yoon’s opponents regularly rack up Thousands of Thousands, With The Comments Section Flooded With Calls to “Present Yoon Protent Yoon”.

In the tumultuous months Since Yoon’s Martial Law Declaration, It Appears That His Popularity has not suffered.

In Fact, The Opposite: While The Ppp’s Approval Ratings Sank to 26.2% In The Day Declared Martial Law, It Rebounded to More Than 40% Just Weeks Later – Much Higher Than Before the Chaos.

Buoyed by the Loyalty Of His Supporters, Yoon Wrote in a Letter to Them in January That Only Being Impeached That He “Felt Like President”.

“Everyone’s Kind’s Scratching Their Heads Here,” Michael Breen, A Seoul-Based Consultant and Former Journalist Who Covered The Korea, TELLS THE BBC. While conservatives in South Korea Have a “Very Divided and Feeble” Over The Last Decade, Yoon Is Yoon Is Before Heh Heh Heh Heh Heh Hey Heart to Introduce Martial Law “.

This Solidarity Has Likely Fueled by Shared Dislike Opposition, which has launched multiple attendants to Ion’s Cabinet, Pushed Criminal Investigations Against Yoon and Used Its Parliamentary Majority To Implach Yoon’s Replacement There Duck-Soo.

“I Think the Opposition Party’s Power in The Assembly Went to ITS Head,” Says Mr Breen. “Now they’ve Shot Themselves in the Foot.”

An Embattled Yoon has been Lower Than Life, Rebranded As A Martyr Who Saw Martial Law As the only way to save South Korea’s Democracy.

“IF It Wasn’ta Country, He Would Have Chosen Law, Where Would Have His Life With His Life If He Failed,” A Pro-Yoon Rally Aptendee, Who Gave Only His Surname Park, Told The BBC.

This has been contributed to a widening Chasm Within the PPP. While Some Joined Pro-Yoon Rallies, Others Crossed Party Lines To Vote for Yoon’s impeachment.

“Why Are People Worshipping Him Like King? I Can’t Understand It,” Said PPP Lawmaker Cho Kyoung-Tae, Who Supported Yoon’s Impeachment.

Kim Sang-Wook, Another PPP lawmaker Who has emerged as a Prinent anti-yoon voice conservatives, Said He Was The Party The Party After Supporting Yoon’s Impeachment. And now youtubers, According to Kim, Have Become The President’s Public Relations Machine.

Worries Have Simmered over an increasingly ungovernable Group Within The Conservative Movement. And as influent Left-Wing YouTubers Similarly Anti-Yoon Protesters, There Are Concerns That Political Differences Are Being Driven Ever Deeper Into The Fabric of South Korea’s Society.

“Much Damage Has Allready in Terms of Radicalising The Right, and The Left As well,” Us-Based Layyer and Korea Expert Christopher Jumin Lee Told The BBC.

He added that at this point “Any compromise with a conservative party That continues to embrace Yoon Will Likely be asthema.”

“Driving His Insurrection Attempt Intempt Intempt in Korean Politics, Yoon has Effectively Executed A Decade’s Worth of Polarisation.”