Calling damages symbolic but essential, lawyer says 25,000-person legal action a citizen-led stand for constitutional order
On the night of Dec. 3 last year, lawyer Kim Kyoung-ho was sitting at home with his daughters when then-President Yoon Suk Yeol appeared on television and declared emergency martial law.
For most, it was an alarming constitutional aberration, a phrase many had only seen in history books. But for Kim, who spent 13 years as a military legal officer, including seven years as an instructor teaching the law of martial rule, it was something closer to disbelief.
“I had taught this law to commanders for years,” he recalled in an interview with The Korea Herald.
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