SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA – DECEMBER 03: President Lee Jae-myung hosts the first anniversary of the first contractor for the first anniversary of former President Mrs. Yoon, on December 3, 2025 in Seoul, South Korea. A year has passed since then, and since then, Suk Hyun Yoon Suk Hyun announced the creation of a state of emergency, wonder Korea, and a political crisis that remains true to this day. (Photo by Chung-Moon/Getty Images)
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South Korean President Lee Jae-myung has vowed a “strict reckoning” of last year’s failed coup by Ms. Yoon’s predecessor.
According to Lee, according to the English translation of Lee Arian News, the events on December 3 were called the “Revolution of Light” and said that the “revolution” was not complete.
He said, adding that investigations and tests are ongoing into the growth.
The current president is currently on trial for sedition, and prosecutors said they were looking for him 15 years in prison For former Prime Minister Han Duk-soo.
Other senior officials, including Yun’s defense minister and the former head of the National Intelligence Service, have been arrested for supporting military rule.
It has been Asia’s fourth largest economy since 1980, every year since the announcement of the speech.
A television screen shows news of South Korean President Yoon’s President Yoon Suk Hyeol giving a speech in northwest Seoul on December 3, 2024 in northwest Seoul.
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Lee called it a “self-revolution” and “self-revolution” and said that “those who have destroyed the constitutional order for individual arrogance and who have faced war, even those who have faced war, must build a country where no one can dream of a revolution.”
In his speech, the South Korean President also praised the people of South Korea, who peacefully overcame the “unprecedented democratic crisis” and “deserved the Nobel Prize.”
When asked by the press if he proposed to respect the people of South Korea, Lee explained that it was his personal opinion, but that his opinion was “people’s debate”.
Martial law action
The crisis began on December 3, 2024, in a day-and-night address in which he accused the Democratic Party of Korea of colluding with “Civil Service” and “North Korean Communists”.
Yun ordered troops into the country’s national assembly, where soldiers blocked access and clashed with protesters and lawmakers as special forces tried to enter the chamber.
But within three hours, martial law was overturned after 190 of the nation’s 300 lawmakers — including Lee — convened in the House and unanimously rejected the decree. Yun finally pulled out six hours after the fight was announced.
Soldiers try to enter the National Assembly Building in Seoul on December 4, 2024, on December 4, 2024, as South Korean President Yoon Seung-suk-hyun declared martial law. South Korean President Yoon Suk-hyeol on December 2 condemned the standoff against “state forces” and accused the country of posing “threats” to the North.
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South Korea then returned to weeks of political crisis. Yoon was impeached on December 14, when Prime Minister Khan was acting president of the Prime Minister’s Office. Khan was impeached on December 27 and subsequently promoted to Deputy Prime Minister Choi Sang-MOC.
The country’s constitutional court then reinstated Khan in March, sending him to trial on April 4.