A few days later, the president barely survived an impeachment attempt. The following weekend, officials once again gathered to oust Yoon. This time they succeeded. On the roads, thousands of demonstrators screamed with joy and released balloons into the air.
For much of the world beyond South Korea, the intensity of the past couple of weeks is a hard-to-fathom episode in a nation that has fought hard for democratic rights and clearly refused to part with them. Infrastructure projects have often moved at turbo speed, and the scars of poverty and past colonial and military regimes inform decision-making, motivating the populace to keep striving for a stabler future.
In Japan, regime change is rare because resistance is broadly shunned. Thousands of demonstrators poured onto the streets of Seoul with light sticks and danced at rallies to pop songs like Whiplash , a hit from the girl band Aespa. This characteristic of how we can all gang up together very quickly and get excited. She said the past month also illustrates an anger that is embedded in another popular term: naembi geunseung , or the boiling pot syndrome. Koreans heat up fast, she said, and cool down just as swiftly.
Some link the development of palipali to the Chollima Movement, when North Korea urged labour to work harder and faster to boost production after the Korean War ended in This mentality influenced South Korea, which was the poorer of the two economies after the fighting ended.
Business and political leaders pulled the country up through encouraging a uniquely abrasive β and often theatrical β approach to achieving speedy results.
