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LAST year, South Korea made headlines around the world for two reasons. The first was writer Han Kang’s celebrated Nobel prize for literature win in October; the second was far less positive. Late in the evening of December 3 2024, the country’s President Yoon Suk Yeol unexpectedly declared martial law – the first time it had happened since the country became a democracy in 1987.
Protesters and lawmakers rushed on to the streets to resist Yoon’s decree, and martial law was annulled early the next morning at 1am.
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