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All hell is breaking loose in South Korea right now.

I want to give you some backstory here and give you a hot take on it.

I mean, this is just like, boom, it's just exploded in the last few hours.

First, a caveat. If any of you are South Korea scholars from South Korea, I've spent a lot of time

in South Korea. I've been to South Korea

many times. I used to do business in South Korea, but I am no expert. I'm familiar with the

country. I've been there. I don't speak South Korean. One of my very closest friends is South

Korean, but I haven't talked to politics with him in several years. So I just, what I know here

and what I'm sharing with you

is just basically what I've picked up in the media over the years and certainly today. So

part of this is opinion, part of it is this is what's going on. So let me start with the opinion

part. In my opinion, Mr. Yun, President Yun of South Korea, is basically South Korea's version of Donald Trump.

He was elected in 2022 in a squeaker election.

He won by a very small margin.

He immediately started going after the press. He called the

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