More than 2,500 people from South Korea’s film industry signed a petition calling for his impeachment on Tuesday after South Korean President Yoon Seok-yeol mistakenly declared martial law.
Many of the biggest names in domestic film and Korean drama—including parasites A-list actors such as director and multiple Oscar winner Bong Joon-ho and Kang Dong-won (peninsula), Son Ye-jin (Crash landing on you) and Park Eun-bin (Outstanding Lawyer Hu)—as well as 77 local film industry organizations, including the Korean Directors Guild and the Korean Producers Guild, signed the document.
According to the Korean Film Association, a total of 2,518 Korean film professionals signed in support of the petition, which was open for 30 hours from Thursday to Friday. Korea Joongang Daily. Other big names on the list include Kim Go Eun, Jun Ji Hyun and Cha Seung Won.
South Korea’s entertainment industry is not the only one calling for the president to step down. Tens of thousands of protesters gathered outside South Korea’s National Assembly on Saturday, where local lawmakers voted on whether to impeach him. The impeachment vote moved slowly Saturday night, with nearly everyone from the president’s party fleeing the House to avoid participating in the impeachment process. Meanwhile, the opposition is trying to persuade members of the president’s party to renew support for removing the president, which would require a two-thirds majority under South Korean law.
“The emergency martial law declared on Tuesday is beyond the ordinary. Even if the imagination of film production is applied, this will still be considered an illusion, but it still happens in our reality,” signed the film industry petition on Friday say. “For Koreans in the film industry, Yoon Seok-yeol is no longer the president of South Korea, but just a criminal.”
South Korean politics have been in a state of crisis since Yoon took the drastic step of declaring emergency martial law on Tuesday night, only to withdraw it six hours later amid public outrage and a unanimous vote by the National Assembly to withdraw.
Yoon gave a brief speech in Seoul earlier on Saturday, saying he was deeply sorry for the pressure his actions had caused but refused to resign, saying the decision rested with his party.
For many South Koreans, the deeply unpopular president’s attempt to use martial law to deal with political opposition and intense media scrutiny has brought back dark memories of South Korea’s brutal military dictatorship in the 1980s.
The film industry statement continued: “The first step in restoring South Korea’s reputation in the world and overcoming this chaos is to suspend Mr. Yoon’s presidency. If the quickest way is impeachment, then he must be impeached. If there is a quicker way It is a non-negotiable step for President Yoon Seok-yeol and those behind the declaration of martial law, including the defense minister, to unmask themselves as perpetrators of treason. .
