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If you're not paying attention to South Korea, that's ok. Just know there's a wildly partisan polarising fight happening in public discourse with experts pointing to illiberalism and democratic decay while others are claiming the mantle of justice in the name of democracy...
There's disturbing piece from Gi-Wook Shin, a Korean sociologist at Stanford, on South Korea's democratic decay just came out: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/760090?fbclid=IwAR0JOf2w9fU6J-ECVtP3Tiv_BRw7sptodzyxIQvoeYoaAYAD3DO65ebenDI
Brookings' Jung Pak, who just joined the Biden administration, has put this in the context of North Korea policy https://www.brookings.edu/articles/north-koreas-long-shadow-on-south-koreas-democracy/
Andrew Yeo has research that just came out arguing South Korea has shown it has a democratic ceiling https://twitter.com/AndrewIYeo/status/1303730475865960456
But there's also this, from a known South Korean partisan from the other side, who makes some interesting (and reframing) points https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/01/20/trump-south-korea-park-geun-hye-justice-healing/
Sharing this so I can keep track of things. But also because this is one instance where it's not possible for you to have an informed opinion unless you know things about Korea. Tread lightly with your hot takes on South Korean governance
and understand that there's A LOT of partisan pundits arguing on the basis of South Korean politics and not meaningful analysis
Don’t be somebody’s useful idiot
