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Same could be said for convicting trump of impeachment, but here we are, term 2 electric boogaloo
yeah but as someone commented. thought south koreans would show more sense than us with trump and uk with brexit.
Well, "Impeaching" a president literally just means holding a trial. The House of Representatives (controlled by Democrats at the time) issued articles of Impeachment, initiating the process of charging him with a crime, as is required by law.
The law also mandates the Senate to be the Judge and Jury though, and the Senate was controlled by Republicans, who voted to acquit him of all his crimes. Twice.
So not quite the same, since the vote to end martial law in Korea was unanimous, but the vote to initiate impeachment failed.
Voting to end martial laws was not unanimous.
It was 190 out of 300, 110 of which weren't able to get in the building.
Impeachment in South Korea requires 2/3 supermajority, then it goes to the Supreme Court.
The president's party has 108 members in the national assembly. They'd need 8 defectors from the party to impeach.
Then it goes to the Supreme Court, which is probably the easier step compared to 2/3 of legislature.
Ah my bad, when I read the vote was 190-0, I assumed that was everyone.
When you think about it, in some ways it's not that unreasonable of an assumption. 300 - 110 (who couldn't get into the building) = 190 (who voted to end martial law)
If you could the votes of those who were actually present, then you could say it was unanimous.
That said, a PPP delegate who was going to vote against probably didn't have a whole lot of incentive to try and get into the building (suggesting the possibility that it might be reasonable to count at least some of the "unable to get in" folks as no votes).