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of Seoul. 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 former President
Moon’s policies have joined this protest. !is Black Street
Movement has quickly become a new culture in Korea.

!ose involved hoped that with public awareness and more
participation the Black Street demonstrations would go viral
soon like the Gangnam Style horse dance. 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 around the political regime that was becoming rapidly
totalitarian.

How did all of these protests remain unknown outside Korea?
As a matter of fact, these were not su"ciently known even to
the majority of Korean people. How is this lack of knowledge
possible? !e 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.

!is kind of irony happened because the leadership is
controlled by a minority group who could not otherwise

28 Election Fraud in South Korea: Documenting the Truth