Jean McKenzie
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69 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Mar 2025
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It's a Saturday afternoon, and the main road through the center of Seoul has been closed off to traffic because thousands of people have come out to support Mr. Yoon. These aren't just Mr. Yoon's core supporters, older, ultra-conservatives. There are young people here today.
Something people keep telling me is that they don't trust mainstream media. Even the conservative press here has been very critical of Mr Yoon. And so these people have turned to YouTube, where there are these very popular right-wing channels that are amplifying these sort of messages.
One idea the president has dangled that has really taken hold is that China interfered in South Korea's election last year and rigged the result. I noticed that you're holding a sign which says CCP out. So Chinese Communist Party out. Why is that?
The protests turned violent last month when a group of young men smashed up a courthouse looking to take revenge against a judge who'd helped detain the president. These were shocking scenes for a country which prides itself on its tradition of peaceful protest. These views could create problems for the country's opposition Democratic Party.
I've come to the parliament to meet one of their most seasoned politicians.
What do you say to these claims that it is the Democratic Party that is secretly colluding with North Korea, secretly colluding with China?
The court is expected to rule in the next month on whether to bar Mr Yoon from office. Then there will be elections and South Korea will have the chance to move on. Politicians now are going to have to work really hard to put this country back together.
We can say this is a timely meeting because It came when we saw a number of partners decided to stop funding to a number of programs in Africa. And today, our leaders, they decided collectively to take strong action to increase domestic resources and to reduce dependence to external funds.
It's a combination of a number of actions, from increasing the health budget, second, for putting in place some taxes to create innovative funding, and also for providing some innovation, the innovative approach for Africa CDC and other countries.
Yes, what our leaders did, it was first to open the door for this kind of topics. And, you know, it was not common to discuss innovative financing mechanisms. Now they decided to put in place a committee of AU, Africa CDC and African Medicine Agency to sit together to develop with some experts a concrete plan how we can now start to raise this fund.
This report really sets out what the full investigation is going to do. And it says that it's going to focus on two main things. So that is the role, as you say, that a bird strike played in this crash, but also the role that this localizer, this guidance system at the end of the runway, which the plane then crashed into, what role that played as well.
But in terms of the bird strike, this initial report has already set out some of the findings. So it details how the pilots, when they were coming in to land at Muon Airport that day, they were talking, they were discussing this flock of birds. The plane then goes around to attempt a second landing. And that is when the air traffic controllers warn these pilots about the birds.
And it is just seconds later, really, that they then make this emergency mayday landing warning. So that is the point at which we know that something has gone wrong. And the plane then comes into land, it lands on its belly, it speeds along the runway, and it crashes into this localiser, this guidance system at the end.
Now, since the crash, the investigators have also looked at the engines, and what they have found is feathers from birds and bloodstains on both of the engines. So although this is an initial report, it suggests that birds got into both of the plane's engines. Perhaps they caused both of those engines to fail.
And this could then explain why the plane wasn't able to get its wheels down when it came into that landing. But of course, this is an initial investigation and much more work is going to be needed to establish the exact cause of this crash.
Can you show me some of the abusive messages that you received?
We're calling this woman Doreen. She draws animations for video games. And one night, after completing a big project for one of Korea's most popular games, Maple Story, she was flooded with these abusive messages.
Doreen had become the target of a vicious online witch hunt where young men try to get feminists fired from their jobs. They often target women who work in the gaming industry, trawling their social media to find any trace of feminism, then pressuring their companies to sack them. And way back on Doreen's timeline, they'd found a supportive post.
This backlash to feminism has been slowly escalating. Women here suffer from severe discrimination, misogyny and sexual violence. And as feminists have fought to improve women's rights, young men have pushed back. It's so bad. It's worse than I remember. Good God. Can you read me some of the messages?
I'm sitting with Minsung Kim. He's a big online gamer, and we're looking through some popular online message boards, and they're just full of misogynistic abuse. Minsung used to belong to these forums, but now he calls himself an ardent feminist, and he's working to support women who are being attacked. He even managed to convince Darim's company not to fire her.
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