The opposition ended up with 192 seats of the 300-seat legislature—with one minor party running on a slogan that referred to Yoon’s time left in office: “Three years is too long.” That effectively made Yoon a lame duck, as he was set to become the first South Korean president to go a full five-year term without ever having party control of the National Assembly.
The ruling right—in particular Yoon—has gone from being the party firmly in charge to becoming a perennial target.“When formerly oppressed parties become unleashed, they start biting back,” said Aram Hur, a political-science professor at the Fletcher School, Tufts University, who focuses on democracy and nationalism.“The South Korean left feels such a vengeance precisely because the right has done this all along to keep them down.”Yoon’s decision to impose martial law—a move that was overturned in a matter of hours during the night of Dec.3 by the opposition-controlled legislature—came after the leftist Democratic Party had backed him into a corner politically.
The presidencies of both Moon and Yoon supercharged South Korea’s polarization, said Choi Jin, head of the Institute of Presidential Leadership, a private research firm in Seoul.“Both the ruling and opposition parties have neither cooperated nor supported each other,” he said.
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