Question: On December 3rd, 2024, a state of martial law was declared in South Korea by President Yoon Suk Yeol. However, due to strong resistance from citizens and the passive stance of the military and police, the National Assembly promptly passed a revolution to revoke the martial law. Subsequently, on December 14th, the assembly passed a motion to impeach the president. After nearly four months of deliberation by the Constitutional Court, on April 4th, 2025, the impeachment was unanimously upheld, resulting in the official removal of the president from office. Throughout this entire process, many Korean students earnestly participated in calling for overcoming this. While South Korea’s democracy still has a long way to go, what spiritual lessons can the Korean people take from this experience? And what are the inner and outer challenges that the nation must overcome going forward?
Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2025 Ukraine Webinar.
Well, I certainly applaud the Korean people for going through this process. And I applaud our students in Korea for making the many calls that had a major impact on facilitating the process. The important thing here is that democracy functioned, and democracy stayed calm and focused on using the tools of government to handle the situation, instead of the military or others taking drastic actions.
What can the Korean society learn from this? Well, the main lesson really is to sharpen people’s discernment so that they become better at evaluating political candidates before they are elected. If you look back at this president’s speeches before the last election and his life, you can see certain tendencies for him to be unbalanced. And what he did by declaring martial law was clearly unbalanced. I understand very well that martial law is a concept that many people in Korea look at as not a positive thing whatsoever because of the past, where Korea was under martial law for so long. But nevertheless, my point, my greater point, here is that it is a matter of people getting better at evaluating political candidates, so that they do not vote for people who have these clear imbalances in their psychology, in their approach to politics, in their worldview.
And another lesson is, of course, the lesson that you are seeing in all democracies around the world. It is the belief in whether there are simple solutions to our problems, and whether there is one person who is in this black and white thinking who can solve the problems. And it is very important that people worldwide learn this lesson, that black and white thinking cannot solve our problems, and there is no strong man who can solve our problems, because the whole purpose of a democracy is actually the raising of the collective consciousness. We will have more to say about this during our Korean conference, I am sure, so this will be what I will give you for now.
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