The New Yorker "One man tries to dictatorship...Institutional checks"

In Korea, only one person tried to return the country to the days of dictatorship, but various institutional checks worked along with the resistance of ordinary citizens, according to the U.S. weekly "The New Yorker."

The New Yorker said in an article titled "Korea, Is It a Blueprint to Resist Dictatorship?" that lawmakers crossed the fence to lift martial law, President Yoon Suk Yeol was impeached, and the Constitutional Court began reviewing it, explaining that they combined to save Korean democracy at least now.

Laura Gamboa, a professor at Northerdame University who studies anti-dictatorship movements in each country, said the president could pose as a martyr if he failed because of the small consensus of impeachment, but if there is a lot of consensus, impeachment is a good way to prevent a democratic retreat.

In addition, he added that in the case of Korea, there is a strong consensus that President Yoon actually committed crimes subject to criminal punishment.