The president's ultraconservative supporters believe that the country has been overrun by North Korea sympathizers conspiring to destroy South Korea’s freedoms.
They gathered in subzero temperatures, waving banners that read, “Stop the steal.” Some voiced faint hope that President-elect Donald Trump would support their cause; others accused China’s Communist Party of infiltrating South Korea’s news media. All of it was in the service of one aim: to save South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol.
More than two dozen YouTube personalities were invited to Yoon’s inauguration by first lady Kim Keon-hee. Some were later appointed to government positions. In a memoir published last year, Kim Jin-pyo, the former speaker of the National Assembly, recalled meeting Yoon shortly after the 2022 Itaewon Halloween disaster, in which 159 people were crushed to death after being trapped in a narrow alley.
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