it's life for Yoon

I've been trying to stay away from politics and current events, but this is kind of important:

From a friend in Korea, about the conviction and sentencing of Yoon Suk Yeol:

“Today, February 19 (KST), a Seoul court sentenced former President Yoon Suk-yeol to life imprisonment in connection with his December 3 emergency martial law declaration.

The prosecution had sought…

— Gordon G. Chang (@GordonGChang) February 19, 2026

I imagine that that's a pre-arrest photo of Yoon. He hasn't been allowed to dye his hair while he's been detained. My guess is that Yoon will either serve his life sentence or be released early by the next conservative president—assuming that that hypothetical president is the next president because, frankly, I don't see Yoon lasting in jail much longer than a single presidential term (in Korea, a term is five years, and there's no second term).

My unprofessional opinion: Yoon should never have freaked out and declared martial law.

That said, do expand the tweet's text and read it in full. According to the text (which doesn't hide its right-leaning bias), the Korean left took some giant and ethically questionable liberties in how it interpreted law in order to arrive at the conclusion that Yoon had perpetrated an "insurrection" (반란/ballan) Can a sitting government do that? I thought insurrections, by definition, came from outside the government.

looking grayer (but better in my opinion)