I heard a talk by the American buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield in which he attributed a story to 'a Korean Zen master Cusan (sp?)' who came from the 'Nine Mountain Monasteries'. I look this up on Wikipedia and find 'Nine Mountain Schools', called 'gusan', the first Zen practitioners in Korea. Did Mr Kornfield intend to take about the same thing?

Found this video on FMKorea

https://www.fmkorea.com/index.php?mid=best2&document_srl=7776287410
Its kind of hard to see but if you focus on the blue parka wearing man on the right center side of the screen at 0:01, you can see he bends down and a soldier takes that as a move to potentially grab his gun. That soldier then aggressively pushes the citizen to a wall which escalates the situation and makes the man walk aggressively after the first soldier. When a second soldier notices that, he tries to deescalate the situation by holding the citizen back. Then a third soldier comes in to help and the second soldier starts hugging the citizen which prompts the third soldier to join.

Watching this I can't help but feel bad for everyone involved there just because a crazy dumbass and his lackys wanted to hold on to power longer. These citizens came out to defend Korea's democracy and the soldiers are just young kids doing their mandatory service, who were ordered to come here all confused as hell about this chaotic situation they were put in. Everyone there, the citizens, national assembly members, soldiers, and news reporters, did their job as best as they could in that situation and helped end this crazy situation without a single casualty.

P.S the comments are kind of a mess so don't look there for your mental health lol

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MARTIAL LAW?! I’m a Korean- America, born and raised in America, but people have been asking me what is going on in Korea. WHAT IS ALL THIS SHANANIGANS?!

Do you think something will happend to Moon Jae-in in the future?

One of the reason for Yoon's martial law is special activity expenses(will be refered as 'SAE' afterward) budget cut.

You will wonder why DPK has cut the SAE. Here's why:

1. Audit

Some news articles uploaded here explains the audit SAE cut: failing to audit the president and first lady. There has been some improper expense, since the presidental office relocation.

2. Police

Same as audit one, but one more:
At Nov 9th anti-Yoon protests, police broke the rib bones of Han Changmin, the assembly member for proportional representation. And the police's excessive suppression against anti-Yoon protest at Pukyong Univ. is another reason.

3. Prosecutor

Most people know Yoon was former prosecutor general. But during his general times, there were several improper use of SAE, which Yoon and other prosecutor involved.

This is probably the best movie of all time.yoon probably watched it and try to imitate jeon.

Wouldnt be surprised if yoon was trying to cast in a sequel.

The yanks have a coup, their own people turn on each other. Police and protesters kill each other. The political factions fail to unite, with some like Ted Cruise supporting the actions. The president leading the coup not only goes unpunished, but is re-elected.

The Koreans have a coup, and the people and politics band together to overturn martial law in less than 3 hours. Not a shot is fired, no one is injured, and the military did the minimum required given the declaration. Now the president will be impeached or resign.

Now you tell me which is the stronger democracy? Tell me which is the civil society?

The soldiers who were deployed with the purpose of taking control of the National Assembly had no intention of doing so in the first place.

The treatment of soldiers and non-commissioned officers in Korea is not very good. Water bottles used in 1945 still exist as supplies for active-duty soldiers, and M16 assault rifles used before the 1980s exist as training supplies.

Above all, the Korean military is a "conscription system." Young men in their 20s are deprived of all social opportunities and are forced to serve in the military for two years. In addition, due to unreasonable and low-quality conscription screening, even patients with brain tumors and CRPS are being forcibly conscripted.

What is even more serious is that the working conditions of non-commissioned officers and commissioned officers, who are professional soldiers, are terrible. Many dilapidated buildings that should have been abandoned are used as their quarters, and the salaries of non-commissioned officers are only about the same as those of soldiers.

In such a situation of neglect, which soldier would actively enforce martial law, which is so crude? If they had the will to enforce martial law, would they have raised both hands and been pushed back without even a single objection to the protesters?

Despite the armed soldier's attempt to seize the gun (the woman was holding the gun with her bare hands and pulling it towards her. Her determination to resist oppression is commendable, but the actions that occurred during the process were extremely reckless. Because it was a serious mistake that could have resulted in actual shooting), no physical harm was done, only the hand that was holding the gun was pulled away. These two facts show that President Yoon Seok-yeol of South Korea failed to control the military, and is reckless and ignorant of reality.

Show him your opinion.

https://x.com/GertEwen/status/1863979563040080266

now... who is the criminal?