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unscrutinized judicial verdict. They have proven themselves useless in democratic
procedures.

Four years ago in Korea, the most commonsensical requests to examine charges of
election fraud were blocked from mainstream information channels and framed as
conspiracy theories and were quickly killed in the media market. It is no more secret
that the then leftists’ government of Korea has strong political inclination toward
Chinese totalitarian leadership and North Korean dictatorship. The ruling party was
trying to amend the constitution by abandoning the principle of free democracy that
has been the constitutional foundation of the miracle of Han-River. Many pieces of
evidence of election fraud were not heard or investigated 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

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