Jean McKenzie
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Mar 2025
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Why do these men have such a problem with feminists?
Because these witch hunts do work, there are cases where women have lost their jobs. And for one woman, the violence spilled offline and into real life. We're calling her Chigu.
Chigu was working alone in a convenience store late at night when the man came in and started attacking her. Since then,
Global News Podcast · Police suspend efforts to arrest impeached South Korean president · 3 Jan 2025
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The standoff started before dawn. Police blocked the roads around the president's home, pushing back his incensed supporters. As the sun rose, the first officers ran up to his house to make the arrest. But they were unable to get in. Blocked by the president's security team, who refused to open the door. By lunchtime, the officers had given up. An arrest was impossible, they said.
Mr Yun may have been suspended, stripped of his power, but still his security is protecting him. It's been exactly a month since President Yun plunged his country into crisis, imposing martial law, ordering troops to storm the parliament.
He quickly reversed the decision, but he's being investigated for starting an insurrection and he's refused to cooperate with authorities, ignoring all requests to come in for questioning. His supporters have camped out around his home, also determined to block his arrest. This is totally unchartered territory for South Korea. It is the first time a sitting president here has ever faced arrest.
And even though most people here are still so upset about his decision to try and bring the country under martial law, the core of his supporters here have stayed loyal to him, and they have surrounded the president's residence this morning. They're riled up and angry, and they've been spurred on by the president himself, who has thanked them for working so hard to defend him.
They chant the same unfounded conspiracy theories Mr Yoon himself has alluded to, that last year's elections were rigged and the country has been infiltrated by pro-North Korean forces. We will fight. They have to kill me first before they arrest President Yoon. That will not happen, never again. Mr Yoon swore he'd fight this until the end.
This is exactly what he, his security and his supporters are doing.
Those absolutely dramatic scenes that you were just playing then, that we were just hearing from the Parliament. Now, this is really the opposition party who have managed to remove the Prime Minister Han. They have a huge majority in Parliament.
And when they voted to impeach him, the members of the ruling party, Mr Yoon's party, got up and they surrounded the Speaker of the House and they started shouting at him, as you heard. They are angry that this vote has even been allowed to go ahead again. There is now such political animosity between these two parties and total political deadlock here in South Korea.
How we got here was that over the past couple of days, this row has erupted between the opposition party and Prime Minister Han. Mr Han has refused to appoint these judges that Parliament had chosen to oversee President Yoon's impeachment trial. This is the court case that is going to decide whether Mr Yoon should be permanently barred from office or whether he should be reinstated.
And the opposition party have decided that because Mr Ham was blocking the appointment of these judges, he was essentially protecting Mr Yoon and therefore wasn't fit to run the country.
Well, Mr. Han has said that he is going to step aside. He listens to the vote. He's going to follow the legal processes. So what that means now is that the country's finance minister is now going to be in charge of running the country. He is the third in command.
But all this does really is just add to this political vacuum that we've got here in South Korea and this uncertainty that has been playing out really since President Yoon unleashed it three and a half weeks ago when he imposed martial law. And people here are asking, well, where does this now end?
because if the finance minister comes in and he too refuses to appoint these judges, then the opposition party could just impeach him as well and they could continue doing this again and again, effectively rendering South Korea without a government. And briefly, what effect does it have economically on South Korea? It's had a big one. South Korea's economy is really struggling.
The stock market has taken a hit. The currency has plunged. Even just today, the South Korean won, fell to its lowest level against the dollar since the financial crisis. So in 16 years. And this is having a real impact on people's day-to-day lives. And so they are nervous. They are feeling this political uncertainty, this political instability.
Yet while this is unfolding, you have the two parties just shouting and blaming each other.
In propaganda videos, soldiers from North Korea's elite special forces are seen wading through frozen rivers topless, smashing blocks of ice with their bare hands. The regime showcases them as the toughest of the tough. But according to Hanul, who served as a frontline soldier in the demilitarized zone, that's not the reality.
I've come to meet another defector, Song Hyun, who escaped fairly recently, in 2019. He says that although the special forces do get some more advanced training, they're not front-line soldiers.
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