Hundreds of thousands of people have rallied in Seoul as lawmakers again try to impeach the president after his failed attempt to impose martial law
Park said South Korea’s democracy owed much to the pro-democracy protests in the southern city of Gwangju in 1980, when demonstrators were killed and injured in a bloody crackdown. “Martial law should only be proclaimed when the state is in an emergency or a state of war”,” Park said of Yoon’s short-lived declaration on 3 December. “However, those conditions did not exist.”
“Yoon Suk Yeol is the leader of this insurrection,” Park has declared.
