YouTube personality Kim Eo-jun (C) answers questions relating to the recent martial law situation during a plenary session of the National Assembly Science, Technology, Information, Broadcasting and Communications Committee in Seoul on December 13, 2024. South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol's failed bid to impose the country's first martial law in over four decades last week plunged the country's vibrant and combative democracy into some of its worst political turmoil in years. The senior South Korean military chief in charge of the brief period of martial law said December 5 he knew nothing in advance about Yoon's plans. He also claimed to know nothing about soldiers being sent to the office and home of prominent YouTube personality Kim Eo-jun -- rather than major state broadcasters. (Photo by YONHAP / AFP) / - South Korea OUT / NO ARCHIVES - RESTRICTED TO SUBSCRIPTION USE (Photo by -/YONHAP/AFP via Getty Images)