Hankyoreh | Koreans resoundingly rebuke president in mid-term legislative elections, 11 Apr

The Democratic Party and other opposition parties prevailed, crushing Yoon's conservative People Power Party (PPP). With the opposition retaining a firm grip on the National Assembly, Yoon is likely to lose a lot of steam for governance in the second half of his presidency....That gives the Democratic Party and its satellite party a combined total of 175 seats, and the PPP and its satellite party 108 seats. The minor Green Justice Party won no seats at all.

17 Apr recap: "the worst showing of any ruling party since the country enacted its constitution in 1948"

Lawmakers at the national level serve four-year terms in Korea, meaning the 22nd National Assembly will be in place until Yoon leaves office.

ChatGPT | South Korea Has a Warning About Donald Trump's Trial, 17 Apr
"left-leaning" Quincy Institute simile suicide interview

[...]
KIM: Park Geun-hye's impeachment and conviction was seen as a democratic win at the time—but now it seems like we're stuck in a loop of non-stop prosecution of the opposition party. What have the political implications been like since her sentencing?PARK: What happened afterward is pretty unique and pretty wild. What it did was it
< wipes tears > legalized politics. Not legalized as in going from illegal to legal, but legalized as in politics became sort of < wipes tears > lawfare. It became more about, Did you break the law? Did you not? Can you prove this in court? Can you not?

[INCONTINENCE ALERT]

And the people who are the most powerful in this lawfare are the prosecutors legislators. What ended up happening is that the Prosecutor General—Yoon Suk Yeol—the most powerful prosecutor of them all, became the president on the strength of that. He became a political star first by prosecuting Park Geun-hye.

archive an appropriate punishment (07.04.18)

[...]
On a very ground level, I have been feeling—just because I do a lot of work and business in Korea—you can sense it from government officials [politicians?]that they're freaking terrified to do anything outside of the manual [law?], and everything they do is extremely defensive. Korean government used to be a very, very efficient thing [eNTitY ?!] relative to other governments.

4 yrs ago,  4 yrs ago, 8 yrs ago, 10 yrs ago, 12 yrs ago, 14 yrs ago, etc

Now it's still more efficient than other governments, but you can feel that the gears are slowing down a little and a lot of it is the fact that even minor officials are completely terrified of doing something that is outside of the manual and potentially prosecuted for some reason or another.
[...]
The other thing that happened is that Yoon Suk Yeol is also afraid of the same thing happening to him.

After judgment day from voters, Yoon shrugs off calls for change (17.04.24)

So the other side of the coin is that you end up having an administration that never compromises and never admits any fault. And I think you really see that in the aftermath of the Itaweon disasters, which was this really unbelievably awful thing. And what happens is nobody apologizes, nobody resigns.
[...]

Yonhap | Presidential office denies Moon aides under consideration for PM, 17 Apr

Park [Young-sun] served as minister under the former liberal president, while Yang [Jung-chul] is known as one of Moon's closest confidants.

The reports come as Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, presidential chief of staff Lee Kwan-sup and most senior presidential secretaries have submitted their resignations to take responsibility for the ruling party's crushing defeat in last week's parliamentary elections...