The Tamesis
December 4, 2025
Seoul— Head Of State Lee Jae-myung on Wednesday said thanks to individuals for their payment in withstanding the martial regulation stated by previous Head of state Yun Seok-yeol, yet included that the settlement job that started on December 3, 2024 is not yet full and need to proceed.
In an unique address to the general public, Lee revealed his appreciation to those that birthed the burden of the wintertime evenings of martial regulation.
The head of state likewise recommended that December 3 be assigned as “Individuals’s Sovereignty Day” to celebrate the function played by the individuals in withstanding and toppling Yin’s martial regulation. Individuals that get over situations in harmony “be worthy of the Nobel Tranquility Reward,” Lee claimed.
He discussed that the steps were “a homage to the remarkable guts and activity of our individuals.”
He called public resistance to martial regulation a “transformation of light” and claimed corrective adjustments were still insufficient, asking for those associated with enforcing martial regulation to be promptly taken to court.
” The truth-finding service the disobedience is continuous. The examination and test of the individuals in the disobedience and those accountable are still continuous,” Lee claimed in a declaration.
” Extreme penalty for those associated with the successful stroke is simply the start. Wrongs that weaken the constitutional order and also story battle for individual aspiration need to be taken to court.”
Nonetheless, Lee likewise claimed it was essential not to act quickly. “Also if it is a lengthy and tedious procedure, therapy needs to be accomplished extensively,” Lee Myung-bak informed journalism corps after making his public declaration.
At an interview with international media after his speech, Lee Myung-bak remained to stress the function of individuals and proclaimed “Oriental freedom” as a directing light for striving freedoms worldwide.
” I really hope that the stunning, tranquil transformation of Oriental people and the remediation of their freedom will certainly come to be a design for globe background,” Lee informed a press conference at the previous governmental workplace in Seoul.
” I would certainly likewise such as to share my appreciation and assistance to individuals and leaders defending freedom worldwide, and I desire you really hope.”
Lee Jae-yong was the leader of the resistance in Congress when Yoon stated martial regulation. Remembering the minute he started online streaming right into Congress and after that climbed up over the wall surface to bypass the authorities clog, Lee claimed individuals’s involvement was crucial to reversing martial regulation.
” I live-streamed my thrill to the scene (using YouTube) due to the fact that I think the successful stroke can just be quit if individuals exist,” Lee claimed.
Lee appealed on the radio for even more individuals ahead to the National Setting up and claimed on Wednesday he was excited when individuals did withstand armed soldiers with their bare hands.
Ultimately, Lee Jae-yong, among the 190 legislators, went into the National Setting up regardless of the implementation of militaries and with one voice passed a resolution to raise Yoon’s martial regulation at around 1 a.m. the following day.
” While Congress works out the power to eliminate martial regulation, the genuine power originates from individuals,” Lee claimed.
The martial regulation stated by Yoon at 10:20 pm on December 3, 2024 was short-term, and the National Setting up passed a resolution to raise martial regulation much less than 3 hours later on. Yin officially raised martial regulation 6 hours after it was stated, was impeached within 2 weeks, and was officially eliminated from workplace 4 months later on.
Asked at an interview what was special concerning South Korea’s freedom, Lee Myung-bak claimed it came from the special top qualities southern Oriental individuals that “do not disregard to other individuals’s events and take straight activity in a tranquil way.”
Lee Myung-bak likewise highlighted that this attribute has actually repetitively shown up in the modern-day background of South Korea, which has actually been bothered by tyrannical management and reductions of autonomous motions for years.
” As for I understand, this is possibly unmatched in the background of the globe, where power has actually been toppled by the bloodless, tranquil activities of individuals, and this has actually occurred two times in much less than a years,” Lee claimed, likewise describing the candlelight vigil that ousted Head of state Park Geun-hye in 2016.
” For lots of people and leaders worldwide that are defending freedom, take a look at South Korea. Isn’t that truth?”
Later Wednesday, Lee had lunch with reps of the leading constitutional body to celebrate the pro-democracy motion that conquered the martial regulation situation. Audio speaker of the National Setting Up Woo Won-sik, High Court Head Of State Cho Hee-deok, Constitutional Court Head Of State Kim Sang-hwan, Head Of State Kim Min-seok, National Political Election Compensation Chairman Roh Tae-ak, and others went to the lunch.
According to Lee Kyu-youn, principal assistant of governmental public connections and interactions, Woo provided Lee with a celebratory plaque made from timber chips accumulated from the Capitol after martial regulation was raised in 2015.
