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K-pop hits become anthems of South Korea’s protests against President Yoon
HYUN KYONG HANNAH CHANG draws attention to the role that music has always played in South Korean protest
Protesters gather during a rally demanding South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol to resign, in downtown Seoul, South Korea, December 28, 2024. The signs read "Arrest, Yoon Suk Yeol."
[(AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)]
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
WHEN South Korea’s president, Yoon Suk Yeol, attempted to institute martial law in early December, the public responded with massive protests.
These protests have continued across the country. On December 14, for example, an estimated one million people gathered outside the National Assembly in the capital, Seoul, as lawmakers convened to vote on the motion to impeach Yoon.
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