This conversation brings together labor organizers, opposition politicians, scholars, and peace activists from South Korea to discuss the extraordinary attempt by President Yoon Seok-yeol to impose martial law on South Korea, a key U.S. ally. What are the structural conditions that enabled Yoon to declare martial law? Why is martial law in South Korea not assuredly a thing of the past? Even as the political landscape has shifted since the Carter administration authorized the deployment of South Korean military forces against the people of Gwangju who rose up for democracy in 1980, what is the U.S. role in this unfurling saga? What lessons are to be drawn from the organized resistance of the South Korean people, and what lies ahead?

Please join us in a dynamic conversation, facilitated by Simone Chun, with Jeong-eun Hwang, Haeyoung Lee, Wol-san Liem, Daehan Song, and Sung-hee Choi.