The Korean Writers' Association issued a 'one-line statement' urging the dismissal of President Yoon Suk-yeol from 414 writers.
The statement released on the 25th included participation from Han Kang, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as novelists Eun Hee-kyung, Kim Yun-su, Kim Cho-yeop, Kim Ho-yeon, and Park Sang-young, poets Kim Hye-soon, Kim Sa-in, Oh Eun, and Hwang In-chan, and literary critic Shin Hyung-cheol.
Writer Han Kang wrote, 'I believe in the values of life, freedom, and peace that should not be harmed. Dismissal is about preserving universal values.'
Eun Hee-kyung wrote, 'I want to live in a world of democracy,' and stated, 'Let’s build a society of equality by punishing the instigator of the insurrection.' Kim Yun-su said, 'By next week at this time at the latest, may it be a night filled with justice and peace.'
Literary critic Shin Hyung-cheol indirectly criticized President Yoon by quoting a line from Sophocles' tragedy 'Antigone': 'Only in front of those who can endure you among friends, go wild.'
That day, the Korean Writers' Association made an emergency declaration with the names of 2,487 literary figures in front of the Gwanghwamun protest site.