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by most of the mainstream media under the influence of the super-ruling political power.
Numerous observers, witnesses, YouTubers, intellectuals, and a couple of small-scale
independent media were the sources that uncovered many subsequent pieces of evidence such
as vote counting machines malfunctioning always to the benefit of ruling party candidates,
many early voting ballot papers that were not of standard format, ballot boxes of which seals
were taken off or damaged, the fact that security cameras in the early voting stations were
ordered to cover up by the National Election Commission, and the fact that QR Code was used
illegally for early voting instead of bar code. As such revelations of facts and evidence have
been suppressed from public view and dismissed as conspiratorial, credibility of the entire
election management system in Korea fell into controversy. This is why ordinary citizens were
voluntarily coming out on the streets by wearing black to symbolize the death of democracy.
Despite the Corona virus regulations, students and citizens have been holding almost every
weekend at various location,s including Gangnam district of Seoul, numerous rounds of street
demonstrations protesting against election fraud. Numerous social organizations, including
the Professors’ Solidarity for Freedom & Justice, Seoul National University alumni, retired
diplomats' and military generals' meetings, and Christian churches critical to President
Moon’s policies have joined this protest. This black street movement has quickly become a
new culture in Korea.
They hoped that the black street demonstrations would go viral soon like the Gangnam-
Style horse dance with public awareness and more participation. Joshua Wong who initiated
the famous umbrella movement in Hong Kong says “We are not doing this because we see
hope—we have to continue to do this to create hope.” Korean counterparts also continued to
do black street demonstrations to squeeze out hope in the political regime going rapidly
totalitarian.
How were all of these protests not known outside Korea? As a matter of fact, these were
not sufficiently known even to the majority of Korean people. How is this ignorance
possible? The new leadership of the then main opposition party itself, who is the primary
victim of election fraud, declared openly that any election fraud argument is nothing more
than political conspiracy at the earliest stage. When the opposition party itself designated
election fraud claims as political conspiracy, most of the media did not broadcast black street
demonstrations and many people simply shut their ears to the voices and arguments of
election fraud. This kind of irony happened because the leadership is controlled by a
minority group who could not otherwise control the party, given that the undeniable the
party failed in such a miserable manner. Thus, the new leadership did not want to disturb
the fact: the premise of total failure of their own party. On top of that, according to a
suspicion the ruling party leadership helped the new opposition party leadership to take
control. Also was raised an argument that the Chinese Communist Party was behind the
scene in order to maintain then left-wing government in the Korean Peninsula. When this
black street movement started to get momentum nationwide, COVID 19 regulations stepped
in. Obviously, the COVID policies of Moon’s administration in Korea were tainted by many
dishonest considerations and deceptions. Very strong COVID regulations were taken to
prevent more citizens participating in the demonstrations and blame spread of the virus was
put on the street protesters and organizers of such meetings.
Then, how was it possible for the Supreme Court to reject election fraud claims in such
an irresponsible manner? Under the national election management system in Korea, one of
justices of the Supreme Court becomes the chairperson of the National Election Commission
and Election Commissioners of local districts are all incumbent judges. Given this interest-
sharing system between courts and election commissions, any courts dealing with election
fraud claims will be likely put under enormous pressure not to investigate the allegations
thoroughly, not to mention against accepting the claims.
IT technology is good and evil depending on how humans use it. That is why particularly
Korea and the United States are vulnerable, and will be more vulnerable, to such evil
technology. In October 2023, a security audit of the National Election Commission’s servers

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