A recent rally in Seoul, South Korea, carried the sound of a rock festival ¡ª high-amp speakers throbbing with the K-pop hit ¡°Gangnam Style¡± ¡ª if not the look of one. The crowd of mostly elderly people waved South Korean and American flags to the song¡¯s revised refrain: ¡°Anti-communist style!¡± When speaker after speaker revved up the crowd with pro-American, anti-communist chants, the crowd shouted, ¡°Hooray for President Yoon Suk Yeol!¡±?
Days later, when thousands of mostly younger protesters marched through the same city center, they ?shook handheld signs and chanted, ¡°Out with Yoon Suk Yeol!¡±
Park Yeol, a regular at such rallies, showed up as an inflatable caricature of the South Korean leader. Fellow protesters took selfies while putting him in a headlock.
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