In the past month, protests supporting impeached and arrested President Yoon Suk-yeol in South Korea have increasingly featured American flags and a host of other U.S.-inspired iconography, such as “stop the steal” signs, red “MAGA”-style hats, and crowds dancing to the Village People hit “YMCA.”
South Korea is experiencing an unprecedented political crisis that escalated on Wednesday with Yoon’s arrest. Members of the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO), which is handling his case, had attempted to arrest Yoon on Friday, but failed when the Presidential Security Service (PSS) blocked their entry to the presidential residence, asserting that it was a sensitive national security site and barreling in to arrest Yoon could compromise military secrets.
Nearly 9,000 conservatives rallied to support Yoon on
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