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Stop the Steal Protest at Ewha Woman’s University Turns Violent After Pro-Impeachment Protesters Show Up

The divide between the pro and anti-Yoon sides in South Korea is continuing to deepen:

About two dozen students, alumni and others gathered at Ewha Womans University in Seoul last week, denouncing the National Assembly’s impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol as “invalid,” only to encounter another group of students holding an in-school rally calling for Yoon’s ouster at the same time.

The encounter quickly escalated into violence as dozens of pro-Yoon YouTubers and activists broke into the campus to join forces, along with an opposing group of anti-Yoon student activists, despite the female-only university’s ban on outsiders entering the campus for any rally.

Insults were hurled between the opposing groups, while some tugged at others before the scene was brought to an end only after university officials and police personnel were mobilized.

Yonhap

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Picture of the Day: Damaged Court Building in Seoul

Recovery work at court attacked by protesters
Recovery work at court attacked by protesters
People clean up destroyed equipment at the Seoul Western District Court in the capital on Jan. 19, 2025, after angry supporters of detained President Yoon Suk Yeol stormed into the court in an act of violent vandalism following the court’s decision to formally arrest Yoon over his failed martial law bid. (Yonhap)