(4 Dec 2024)
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Seoul, South Korea – 4 December 2024
1. Tourists at Gyeongbokgung Palace
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephen Rowan, tourist from Brisbane, Australia: ++STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT; PARTLY OVERLAID WITH SHOT 3++
"I was not overly concerned. But then again, I don’t understand too much about the political status in Korea. I would be concerned if the martial law had stayed in force. But it was instated but then rescinded within about six hours. So nothing too dramatic, I don’t believe. I don’t believe and I’m not Korean."
3. Police outside Gyeongbogkung Palace
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Emma Baswani, tourist from Indonesia: ++PARTLY OVERLAID WITH SHOT 5++
(So are you concerned at all?)
"Only a little bit because our guide is also leading our security. That nothing really big happened. It might be a riot sometime later in the afternoon, but it might be. Yes, we will see."
5. Tourists walking
STORYLINE:
South Korea’s main opposition party on Wednesday urged President Yoon Suk Yeol to resign immediately or face impeachment, hours after Yoon ended short-lived martial law that prompted troops to encircle parliament before lawmakers voted to lift it.
Yoon didn’t make any immediate public response to the opposition’s demand.
But his office said senior presidential advisers and secretaries for Yoon offered to resign collectively and the president also put off his official Wednesday morning schedule.
On Tuesday night, Yoon abruptly imposed the emergency martial law, vowing to eliminate “anti-state” forces after he struggled to push forward his agenda in the opposition-dominated parliament.
But his martial law was effective for only about six hours, as the National Assembly voted to overrule the president. The declaration was formally lifted around 4:30 a.m. during a Cabinet meeting.
The liberal opposition Democratic Party, which holds a majority in the 300-seat parliament, said Wednesday that its lawmakers decided to call on Yoon to quit immediately or they would take steps to impeach him.
The situation in the country still appears fluid.
But on the streets of Seoul Wednesday morning, some foreign tourists did not seem too alarmed.
"I was not overly concerned. But then again, I don’t understand too much about the political status in Korea," said Stephen Rowan of Brisbane, Australia.
"Only a little bit" was the reaction from Emma Baswani a tourist from Indonesia.
AP Video shot by Jennifer McDermott
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