Yoon’s Impeachment Motion Puts Focus on Korea’s Generational Gap
- Protest rallies spotlight differences between age groups
- Older generation tends to support conservative administrations
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment vote is highlighting a widening generational chasm. On one side are older, conservative voters, who back Yoon. The other end represents younger, more liberal South Koreans, who blame the president and his political allies for a lack of job opportunities and holding them back.
This divide, long a feature of national politics, was hard to miss Saturday. Across Seoul, thousands of people gathered to voice their opinion on an impeachment motion against Yoon, whose bungled declaration of martial law Tuesday night rattled the country and allies like the US.