How to fill the fall

The tangible crying screaming before the former President of South Korea, Yoon Sok, Yol, on Friday, as the judges of the Constitutional Court confirmed his isolation.

“I came here with hope in my heart, believing that we will win … it’s very unfair,” 64-year-old BBC Korean told the gathering, as thousands gathered to support Yoon.

These scenes were broadcast live on thousands on YouTube – a common platform not only Yun’s supporters but the president himself.

John has now been stripped of his strength, but he left behind the divided South Korea more than ever.

Last December, Yun The shock of declaring martial rulings cost Most of the country’s confidence. But among his supporters, his ongoing legal complaints did not exceed the image of a wrong savior.

Many of them repeat the accounts full of influential right -wing populations who support Yun: The combat law was necessary to protect the country from opposition lawmakers in North Korea and the strong opposition seriously, and that the Conservative Party was a victim of fraud in the elections.

All this was crowned with a marginal movement that has become more active and extreme, and leaked from behind the computer screens to the streets.

The “Stop the Steal” signs have become a key player in the following gatherings-which were chosen by US President Donald Trump’s supporters, whose political profession was helped by a network of YouTube users.

Shortly after Yun’s arrest in January, angry supporters stormed the court in Seoul, armed with metal firmness, and assaulted the police officers who stood on their way.

Last month, an elderly man died after setting fire to the Seoul city hall weeks ago. A pile of publications accusing opposition leaders of being a pro -northern forces were found.

“If they stay here, our country will become a communist nation,” Read publications. “There is no future for this country, nor a future for young people.”

Even the conservatives were surprised and divided into this new direction of violence.

“I have seen a lot of videos on YouTube Thrashy,” read one of the two articles in Korea Joongang Daily – one of the many conservative news ports that have become an increasingly atmosphere with Yoon supporters. “A mandatory observer can live with the biased YouTube content in a fanatic world dominated by conspiracies.”

From the beginning, Yoon Youtubers embraced the right -wing, and some of them invited to install it in 2022.

In January, while he was challenging his arrest attempts, the president He said Supporters were watching their YouTube gatherings for Vastver. Legionships from the Pakistani People’s Party said that Yoon urged them to consume “well -organized information on YouTube” instead of “Mealed” Legacy Media.

These channels on YouTube are similar to these accounts of the opposition Democratic Party that suffers from Beijing and trying to lie with Pyongyang.

After the Democratic Party won the polls By land collapse last AprilSome of these channels claimed that Yoon was a victim of electoral intervention led by China, and that North Korea’s suspicious sympathizers between the opposition were behind the defeat of the ruling party. Yun echoed similar claims when he tried to justify the declaration of short -lived fighting law.

These novels have found an echo in an online audience that houses general insecurity in the main media and fears of South Korean neighbors.

“I think (the elections were) are completely fraudulent, because when you vote, you can fold the paper, but they continued to find uncomfortable papers,” Kim, who only gave his title, told the BBC at a supporter gathering in January. Such allegations did not fade despite the previous Supreme Court ruling that the voting was not manipulated.

Kim, 28, is among a group of young people who have become the new faces of South Korea.

The youth perspective, YouTube channel, which includes more than 800,000 subscribers run by a person describing himself as a “young man who appreciates freedom”, often shares clips of parliamentary sessions that show politicians in the Pakistani People’s Party who drop opposition members.

Another common YouTube is Jun Kwang-Hoon, a priest and founder of the Evangelical Freedom Unification Party, who publishes videos of politically loaded speeches that urge its subscribers to the two subscribers to join the pro-Leon gatherings. This is in line with the historically strong Protestant support for the province in South Korea.

Nam Hyun Joe, an employee of a theological school, told BBC that she believed that the Chinese Communist Party was “the main representative of fraud in the elections.” She was standing alone outside the Constitutional Court in the cold in January, and she was carrying a protest mark condemning the judiciary.

Other sounds dominate the virtual world are a snapshot of the rest of the Yun support base: middle -aged men or the elderly. One of them runs a genius blow, one of the largest YouTube channels supporting ion with 1.6 million subscribers. He raises his direct opponents of gatherings and monologists regularly heading to tens of thousands of thousands, as the comments department immersed calls to “Protection of President Yun”.

In the turbulent months since Yun’s declaration in military law, it appears that his party’s popularity has not suffered from this.

In fact, exactly the opposite: While the PPP approval classifications were sank to 26.2 % in the days after the customs declaration of martial rulings, it has recovered to more than 40 % after just weeks – much higher by chaos.

Yoon wrote in a letter to them in January after he felt “he felt he was president.”

“The type of everyone scratches their heads here,” says Michael Breen, a Seoul -based consultant and a former journalist who covered Korea. While conservatives in South Korea are “very divided and weak” over the past decade, Yoon says, “now” is now more popular with them than he was before he tried to make martial law. “

This solidarity is likely to be driven by the common opposition, which launched multiple attempts to dismiss the members of the Council of Ministers in Yoon, pay criminal investigations against Yoon and his wife, and used its parliamentary majority to dismiss the replacement of Yoon Han Dako.

“I think the opposition party’s strength in the association went to its head,” says Mr. Brain. “Now they shot themselves in the foot.”

The besieged Yun has become larger than life, as he was renamed as a martyr who saw martial laws is the only way to save South Korea democracy.

“If this is not in favor of the country, he will not choose martial law, as he will have to pay with his life if he fails.”

This also contributed to the expansion of the gap inside the PPP. While some joined the following marches, others crossed the partisan lines to vote to isolate Yun.

“Why do people worship him like the king? I cannot understand that,” said Choi Kyung Tae, a legislator of the Pakistani People’s Party, who supported Yoon’s isolation.

Kim Sang Wook, another of the Pakistani People’s Party, has emerged as a prominent voice to combat Yun between the conservatives, that he was pressured to leave the party after supporting Yun’s isolation. Now they are Youtubers, according to Kim, the president’s public relations machine.

Fears collapsed on the increasing group of ruling within the conservative movement. Since influential left -wing left gathering, there are also fears that political differences are deeper into the fabric of South Korea society.

“It has already been a lot of damage in terms of right extremism, and the left is also this issue,” Lawyer and Korea Crystofer Gomen Lee Li told the BBC.

He added that at this stage, it is possible that any compromise with a conservative party that continues to embrace Yoon will be seen as a curse.

“By leading his rebellion to Korean politics, Yun has already executed a polarization for a decade.”