When I was about 9 years old this guy came to our school and showed us a slide show of pictures from this country that used to be Zaire 
back then, under the Mobutu regime. Some of them were of shops with the windows busted out and stuff. He explained that the army came and stole everything. I think to myself "WTF do you do when the army is stealing? You can't call the cops." That's the moment when baby Redactor started trying to understand this stuff.
Related situation in Korea today. I have no idea what the frick is going to happen here. Who do you call when the Secret Service is fighting the cops? Nobody wants to talk about this but it could be like boomer times (I mean "boomer" in the sense of me, the 1980s this time) where the army decides it. They refused to follow Yun's totally psycho order for martial law but after that the opposition went into full psycho mode too reminding everyone that they're all extremely corrupt, Communist, and probably from Jeolla-do. Seriouspost: My guess is that the army won't get involved but the threat of the army getting involved will get one side or the other to back down before it comes to that. And it probably won't be mentioned in the media because that would be embarrassing.
So what's gonna happen?
The ROK army is a conscript army. Every male in the nation is supposed to serve. (In practice these days half of them are draft dodgers, but that's not relevant here except it pisses me off.) If you're an r-slur (virtually certain since you're reading these words right now) you might think "conscript" is a bad thing. You're imagining hordes of ziggers charging through an open field because somebody said there's vodka on the other side. That's not what it's like. It's a normal part of growing up that everyone does. Everyone has done this since 1950s. Your dad did this. Your grandfather was in the war. The entire national identity is about the boy in the army and his mother caring about him. Forget the "Independence Fighters" and Yi Sun Sin and turtle ships and whatever. This is what Korea is about and the fact that some white guy is saying this so brazenly proves it must be true. What I'm trying to say is that the ROK Army basically embodies the nation of Korea. (Note that I've repeatedly said stuff to draw out any Korean lurkers to get pissed off at me and possibly share with us..)
Anyway there's a bunch of old generals making decisions now. They're constrained because if they give an illegal order, zoomer Korean troops will just frick off and play Starcraft. But the leftoids are basically trying to bite defeat out of the jaws of victory here. They're really really overplaying their hand, acting like the right-wing butthole being in trouble somehow makes people like the left-wing butthole. Incredibly stupid, but that's everything the Korean left has done my entire life.
Redactor prediction: I think something will happen this week. No idea which side. This is gonna be decided by a bunch of 60-year old ajussis in smoke-filled rooms playing 3-dimensional chess. That kind of thing is totally opaque to a person who is far from fluent in Korean.
Anyway, Korean bros and sisters I'll be praying for you.
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What's the left done to sabotage themselves?
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OMG where do I start:
Narrowing the scope to the last month:
After they impeached the president they impeached his successor. There's now one guy left in the chain of succession and they're talking about impeaching him. But who cares? You don't need a president. Lebanon hasn't had one for years and they're doing just fine. Frick it, drive on.
It's hard to summarize but basically their party has a reputation for blatant corruption (their leader is like Trump and Netanyahu, running for office to get out of jail). And doing anything to get power. They're doing it again but the Korean public (unlike most countries) aren't completely r-slurred so they see what's going on.
In general, really broadly: They're the North Korean side. The left are simping for North Korea in some kind of winking "we want peace" kind of way. The right like America. Back in boomer times when there was a dictatorship they recruited a lot of tards. So the left is based on these aging ajussis and ajummas (people who are middle-aged now). This is a huge disadvantage with everyone else. North Korea is really unpopular with them. Sucking North Korea's balls is the core ideology of the Korean left and most of the country doesn't like that.
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If they love North Korea so much, why don't they go live there?
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NKcels are paranoid about spies, just like any totalitarian shithole.
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Exactly. They talk about how misunderstood it is but nobody actually wants to live in a country run by commies. So basically they b-word about America 24/7 (there was a traffic accident 30 years ago where a kid got killed!) to signal which side of the political spectrum they're on, but if they ever get in trouble they beg us for help.
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Ah, so like the KMT in Taiwan.
Looks like both sides will overplay their hand, and who knows what will happen next.
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They have. Total shitshow. I'm gonna try to write about it tonight.
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I don't have enough spoons to read this shit
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I'll give you a fricking spoon. When is the last time you said a nice thing about me?
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