Seoul National University Student Council "尹 Martial Law Threatens Academic Hall...I won't sit idly by."

ⓒYonhap News Agency

The student council of Seoul National University said it would resist the president of Yoon Suk Yeol, who declared an emergency martial law.

The student council of Seoul National University said in a statement on the 4th, "We condemn the actions of Yoon Suk Yeol who ruthlessly trampled on the April 19 democratic ideology against injustice."

The student council criticized, "Yoon Suk Yeol's declaration of emergency martial law is clearly unconstitutional and illegal in accordance with Article 77 (1) of the Constitution and Article 2 (2) of the Martial Law," adding, "It is an unfair treatment that reduces the National Assembly, the representative body of the people, to an anti-state force in pro-North Korea and dismisses the decision of the state agency as a disturbance."

He then repeatedly criticized Yoon Suk Yeol's justification for declaring an emergency martial law to rebuild a free Korea falling into the abyss of collapse, rather leading the free constitutional order to the abyss of collapse.

"What is more disastrous is that the undemocratic emergency martial law threatened and tried to crush even our academic halls," the student council said. "We did not respect our halls, which should have been full of free criticism and debate, restricting freedom of speech, publication, assembly and association with proclamation." I will not stand by the darkness on the torch of truth," he said.

Finally, they said, "If state power does not uphold the values of democracy, we will be willing to resist power, and we will overthrow injustice."

Seoul National University's student council will convene its first general meeting in five years at Seoul National University's Gwanak campus on the 5th. The general meeting will take place only when about 2,000 people, or 1/10 of all undergraduate students at Seoul National University, attend.

Hereinafter, a full text on the entrance of the Seoul National University Student Council.

I condemn Yoon Suk Yeol's declaration of emergency martial law.

On the night of December 3, 2024, Yoon Suk Yeol declared a state of emergency. It is the first time in 44 years since 1980, the first situation since the 1987 constitutional system. "We declared an emergency decree with the will of the rescue, determined against anti-state forces that want to paralyze the essential function of the state and collapse the liberal democratic constitutional order," the Yoon Suk Yeol said.

It is clear that this declaration of emergency martial law is an act of trampling on the liberal and democratic constitutional order of the Republic of Korea. The declaration of emergency martial law by Yoon Suk Yeol is clearly unconstitutional and illegal in accordance with Article 77 (1) of the Constitution of the Republic of Korea and Article 2 (2) of the Martial Law. Apart from partisan conflict, Yoon Suk Yeol's declaration of emergency martial law is an unfair treatment that reduces the National Assembly, the representative organ of the people, to a pro-North Korean anti-state force and dismisses the decision of the state agency as a disturbance. Yoon Suk Yeol's justification for declaring an emergency martial law to rebuild a free Korea that is falling into the abyss of ruin led the free constitutional order to the abyss of ruin.

Even more disastrous is that this undemocratic emergency decree threatened and tried to trample on even our academic halls. The decree restricted the freedom of speech, publication, assembly, and association, and did not respect our hall, which should have been full of free criticism and debate. We will never sit idly by the darkness on the torch of truth. Light up the embers with our voices.

May our will to shine a light never fade, and may the democratic steps leading the way not be destroyed by undemocratic acts. If state power does not uphold the values of democracy, we will be willing to resist power, and we will overthrow injustice. We condemn the actions of Yoon Suk Yeol who brutally trampled on the 4.19 democratic ideology against injustice.

December 4, 2024.