Political wranglings in ROK bad for its people

Republic of Korea President Yoon Suk-yeol announced through a televised address around 4:27 am on Wednesday that he had decided to accept his parliament's request to lift martial law in the country. The decision came just about six hours after he had imposed martial law, at 10:25 pm on Tuesday.

Later, several senior advisers in the ROK government announced their resignations, while the nation's largest opposition party, the Democratic Party of Korea, held an emergency parliamentary meeting and asked Yoon to immediately step down or face impeachment.

The incident is indicative of serious divisions in ROK politics. Yoon and his wife Kim Keon-hee are at the center of a political scandal for allegedly trying to influence the ruling People Power Party to pick a certain candidate to run for a parliamentary by-election in 2022.