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South Korean Protesters Rally With K-Pop Light Sticks
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December 10, 2024
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1:01Now PlayingSeoul’s cityscape has transformed into a glittering color display marrying K-pop and politics, with scores of music fans singing in the streets and waving glow sticks in protest of President Yoon Suk Yeol. #kpop #southkorea #politics #worldnews
In front of the National Assembly, a young crowd of demonstrators have gathered nightly to light up the sky with florescent pops of green, pink and white. The color combinations represent South Korea’s most iconic pop groups, including NCT, EXO, Seventeen, Aespa and more.
The K-pop fans are there for something more sobering than a music festival: the removal of Yoon from his post after his shock declaration of martial law last week. Though the decree was quickly overturned, many younger Koreans were particularly furious at such a draconian move.
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