The impeachment of South Korea's president, Yoon Suk Yeol, by the National Assembly on Saturday, December 14, in response to his decree introducing martial law on December 3, has not gone down well with the ultra-conservative Protestant evangelical movement. At his half-sermon, half-political rally on Sunday, December 15 in Gwanghwamun, central Seoul, Pastor Jeon Kwang-hoon, a major figure in this movement, harangued several thousand of his followers over the National Assembly's vote the previous day to impeach Yoon.

The founder of the Sarangseil Presbyterian Church, with his imposing stature and thick gray hair, claimed the decision was part of a vast plot hatched from Pyongyang and Beijing, with the complicity of the Democratic opposition and its leader, Lee Jae-myung. "We will resist this unconstitutional measure. The revolution has begun. We're going to hold rallies every day in front of the Supreme Court," he said, referring to the body that must validate or invalidate the impeachment within six months for it to be effective.

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