As the drop of the youth fueled the rise of Conservatives s korea

The painful shouts were heard before the official residence of the former South Korean president Yuno Yeola on Friday, when the judges of the Constitutional Court judges confirmed his impeachment.

“I came here with hope in my heart, thinking we will win … It’s so unfair,” said a 64-year-old man who won the BAG-Sil, Korean BBC from the action where thousands gathered in support of Yoon.

These scenes were broadcast up to thousands more on YouTube – a platform popular with fans not only from Yoon supporters but also the president himself.

The disgraced yon is now deprived of his strength, but he leaves more and more divided South Korea.

Last December at Yoon’s Declaration of shock martial law cost him confidence in most countries. But among his supporters, his permanent legal troubles were only even more supported by the image of the offended Savior.

Many of them echo the stories conducted by the influential legal YouTubers that support the young: that martial law was necessary to protect the country from pro-northern Korea and dangerously powerful opposition, and that the Conservative Party of Jonah has fallen victim to the election fraud.

All this ended with a terry movement, which became more intense and extreme, pouring out of the -trapped screens on the street.

Signs “Stop theft” have become a device on Pro-Yoon Rallies-Kaopti US President Donald Trump, whose own political career helped the Conservative YouTubers network.

Shortly after the arrest, in January, angry supporters invaded the court building in Seoul, armed with metal rays, striking on police officers who stood on their way.

Last month, an elderly man died after he died near the town hall of Seoul a few weeks earlier. A stack of flyers was found near him, who accused opposition leaders of being northern Korean forces.

“If they stay here, our country will become a communist nation,” ” Leaflets read. “There is no future for this country or the future for the youth.”

Even the conservatives were surprised and divided by this new tendency of violence.

“He watched too many videos from YouTube,” read one OP -ed in Korea Joongang Daily – one of the many conservative news that is increasingly disagreeing with Yoon fans. “The biased YouTube prejudicing observer can live in the fanatic world where conspiracies prevail.”

From the beginning, Yon hugged the right -wing YouTubers, inviting some of them to the inauguration in 2022.

In January, when he gave up attempts to arrest him, the president detach Fans he watched their rallies on YouTube Livestream. The PPP legislators said Yun urged them to consume “well -organized information on YouTube” rather than “prejudiced” outdated media.

On these channels, YouTube is stories by the opposition Democratic Party that arises in Beijing and tries to give a commitment to Pyongyang.

After the Democratic Party won the election up to landslides in April last yearSome of these channels claim that Yun has become a victim of electoral intervention led by China, and that North Korea’s sympathizers are hiding among the opposition, they became defeated by the ruling party. Such claims responded to Jon when he tried to justify his short -term declaration of martial law.

These stories have found a resonance on an online audience that carries a general distrust of the main media and is worried about South Korea’s neighbors.

“I think (the elections were) completely falsified, because when you voted, you make a paper, but they continued to find documents that were not drawn up,” said Kim, who gave his last name in January. Such claims were not faded, despite the preliminary ruling of the Supreme Court that the voting walks did not manipulate.

28-year-old Kim is one of the contingents of young people who have become new faces of the right panel of South Korea.

Young perspective, YouTube Channel with more than 800,000 subscribers, who describes himself as “a young man who appreciates freedom”, often shares clips from parliamentary sessions that show that PPP politicians output opposition members.

Another popular YouTuber is Jun Kwang Hong, the pastor and founder of the Gospel Freedom Association, which publishes a video about politically uploaded sermons calling for 200,000 subscribers to join the slots. This corresponds to historically strong Protestant support for conservatism in South Korea.

To us Hyon, an employee of theological school, told the BBC that he believed that the Communist Party of China was a “chief actor for election fraud.” Standing alone outside the Constitutional Court in the cold of January, she held a protest protest.

Other voices that dominate the virtual sphere are a picture of the rest of the youth support base: middle-aged men and the elderly. One of them goes to the Genius stroke, one of the largest Pro-YouTube channels with 1.6 million subscribers. His rally and monologues who prescribe opponents of the Yun regularly recruit tens of thousands of views, with the comments section called for “defend the President Yun”.

In the violent months after the Declaration of Military Legislation, it turns out that his party’s popularity was not affected.

In fact, quite the opposite: while the PPP approval ratings sank up to 26.2% over the days after Yon declared martial law, he bounced to more than 40% just a few weeks – much higher than the chaos.

In January, Yun wrote loyalty to the supporters, in a letter to them that only after he was impeachment did he “felt president.”

“Everyone here scratches the head a little,” says the BBC based in Seoul, a consultant based in Seoul, and a former journalist who covered Korea. While the Conservatives in South Korea have been “very divided and weak” over the last decade, he says Jon “is now more popular in them than he has tried to introduce martial law.”

This solidarity was probably caused by a common unfriendly opposition, which launched several attempts to impeach the members of the Eoon’s office, pushed a criminal case against Yun and his wife, and used his parliamentary majority to impeach the substitution of the young Han.

“I think the power of the opposition party in the assembly went to the head,” says Mr. Brin. “Now they shot their legs.”

Sustainable Yon became greater than life, was rebranding as a martyr who considered martial law as the only way to save South Korea’s democracy.

“If it wasn’t for the country’s good, he would not have chosen martial law where he would have to pay with his life if he failed,” the BBC told the participants of the rally, which gave only his last name.

It also contributed to the expansion of the abyss in the PPP. While some joined the Pro-Yoon Cange, others crossed the party lines to vote for the impeachment of Yun.

“Why do people worship him like a king?

Kim Sang-Hunk, another PPP legislator, who became known for the anti-one among the conservatives, stated that he had been pressured to leave the party after supporting the impeachment of Yun. And now youtubers, according to Kim, have become a public public relations machine.

The worries were covered by an increasingly non -state group within the conservative movement. And as influential left -wing YouTubers are similarly combining protests, there is also concern that political differences make deeper into the fabric of South Korea’s society.

“Great damage has already been caused in terms of radicalization of law, and the left, as well as in this matter,” said the US lawyer and Korean expert Christopher Jumin Lee.

He added that at this point, “any compromise with a conservative party that continues to perceive the young will probably be considered anathema.”

“The introduction of an uprising at the Korean Policy Center, Yon effectively fulfilled the polarization of the decade.”