The martial law declaration has forced me to realize that democracy is important, and that it is also fragile. The laws and procedures that we have set up can be destroyed in an instant.
After seeing that other campuses were galvanizing protesters, she felt compelled to act. By Saturday, Ms. Lee had persuaded four friends to join her and tens of thousands of others to demand President Yoon Suk Yeol's removal outside the National Assembly.
Sharing late-night fried chicken dinner with her mother when she received a flurry of messages from friends alerted her that martial law had been declared in South Korea.
Ms. Lee, who like others her age entered adulthood largely detached from politics, dismissed the notion that there could really be a military dictatorship, and she went to bed.
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