The ultra right wing party is already preparing. As they have under previous progressive administrations, they are boycotting parliamentary votes on laws and emergency budgets in the name of democracy.
They have announced that the present administration is a dictatorship (from a party that supports former dictator Park Chung-hee, his daughter, the imprisoned Park Keun-hye, and associated with former dictator Chun Do-hwan), and that they will hold nationwide public protests to stop the administration's dictatorship (without detailing what the administration did) till the day protesters tear down the fence at the presidential Blue House. Sounds like sedition to me. Supposed to be illegal, except in certain instances where politicians are the ones agitating, it seems.
Some male party members shaved their heads in protest. If female members start shaving their heads, or male members cut off something else, I might start to consider the sincerity of their protests.
Print and broadcast media have started to add negative phrases in all sorts of unrelated coverage.
For example in an article in Business Korea, it reported the following.
"Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction has been steadily landing orders for nuclear power plants from overseas countries despite the Korean government’s ill-advised nuclear phase-out policy."
Why did they insert "the Korean government’s ill-advised nuclear phase-out policy"? Aren't they supposed to be unbiased and objective? A lot of Koreans think it is a good policy. We are a small country on the edge of a peninsula (only takes a few hours to drive anywhere) and if an accident happens, it affects the whole nation, not just an area. The chances of an accident happening are probably less than one in a thousand, but is the risk worth taking? Definitely no.
If Kim Jong-un wants to drop the bomb on South Korea, he'd better check the wind direction! Blow all that stuff towards his house, and make it radioactive for decades.
On TV, channel 23, a supposed "expert" was talking about protests in Venezuela, inserted that "fast tracking the bill to reorganize voting districts (to end the gerrymandering that the previous ultra right wing party imposed when they had the majority) would lead to a leftist government like in Venezuela" and states that the administration is at fault. I fail to see the logic.
The bill to fast track the propose was passed after the ultra right wing party refused to even submit an alternative proposal for years. The ruling party and the ultra right wing party stand to lose seats under the proposed reorganization. The ruling party made concessions to the minority opposition parties that stand to gain seats. The ultra right wing party do not want to see the voting districts reorganized and is the only party against the bill. What a cry baby!
I think they know they are going to lose a lot of seats in the next parliamentary elections, and are pulling out all the stops in an attempt to survive (with the backing of the rich and powerful).
They used to have a majority in the parliament for decades. The ultra right wing have the backing of around 30%, no matter what they do. I know some of their supporters, they are pretty senile and unreasonable. Most are rich or wannabee rich types. Fortunate thing most of their supporters are dying of old age, and other diseases.
Wrote a lot this time! Must be frustrated. It's hard to watch the news or read anything without seeing this stuff.
