Old boys' club? South Korea plotters' high school links in spotlight
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Old boys' club? South Korea plotters' high school links in spotlight

Raw Story  

Key figures in South Korea's failed martial law bid share one key connection: they are all graduates of a prestigious, all-boys school in Seoul. President Yoon Suk Yeol's Tuesday declaration of South Korea's first martial law in decades was swiftly overturned by parliament, and the conservative former prosecutor now faces impeachment and possible jail time. And many pointed to parallels with another group of school graduates whose connection last pulled South Korea into martial law -- former president Chun Doo-hwan's "Hanahoe" army clique. An online post three months before Yoon's martial law declaration suggesting the so-called "Choongam connection" could try and exercise emergency powers has since gone viral.

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