The splitting image: Yoon verdict will deepen divisions

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  The Economist.

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  Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.

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  I'm Rosie Blau.

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  And I'm Jason Palmer.

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  Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

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  We've asked it before and we'll ask it again,

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  what will artificial intelligence do to the employment of real sentient human beings?

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  Man versus machine, we report from the middle of the fight.

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  And our culture editor joins us with an examination of the quiet heroism present in the memoir of Gisele Pelicot.

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  But first.

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  South Korea's disgraced ex-president, Yoon Suk-yeol, finally had his big day in court today

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  in connection with his failed attempt to impose martial law on the country just over a year ago.

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  Noah Snyder is our East Asia Bureau Chief.

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  The death penalty was on the table, but in the end he received only a light sentence of life imprisonment

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  for his role as the leader of an insurrection.

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  He's likely to appeal the verdict, but neither his appeal nor this sentence will resolve the deeper fissures

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  that his actions have helped to cause in South Korean society.

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  So let's wind back a bit, Noah, to get a history of how we got to this point.

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  The story really begins late on December 3rd of 2024,

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  when then President Yoon appeared across TV screens in South Korea and declared martial law.

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