Bright, enthusiastic and determined, the teenager stands up straight on the main Yeouido Avenue, facing the National Assembly. “The announcement of martial law [le 3 décembre] made me angry. I never imagined this would happen in South Korea. I fully support the impeachment of Yoon Suk Yeol”she says with an air of defiance. The dismissal of the conservative president was voted on Saturday December 14.
The young girl with long hair and dressed all in black came from Gimpo (northwest of Seoul) with three friends on December 13 – “for the first time because we had the exams, which ended today” – participate in the rally in front of the National Assembly. She admits to having been afraid the night of martial law: “I said to myself: ‘I won’t be able to go out anymore. I will no longer be free.” »
Her friends, two of whom are accompanied by their parents and who, like all the people she meets, prefer to remain anonymous, agree. “I was in the library studying for exams when the news broke. I wondered if the war had started. And then, actually, no. There was nothing”says one of them, in a very light gray velvet jacket while the temperatures remain below zero under a timid sun.
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