How Charlie Kirk inspired a new Korean right-wing youth movement

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  There's a story we want to tell you today about a place where young disenchanted men are moving further to the political right.

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  They're concerned about mass immigration.

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  so-called lawfare and cancel culture.

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  And they're inspired by Charlie Kirk.

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  And no, we are not talking about my homeland or the MAGA movement.

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  We're talking about a right-wing movement in South Korea.

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  Rallies where people chant that Korea is for Koreans and sport red baseball caps.

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  The style, the message,

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  the rhetoric all seem to echo things I've seen at political rallies here in the U.S.

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  The movement has rallied around the disgraced former president Yoon Suk-yul,

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