Anti-Lee Jae-myung Outdoor Rally in Daegu, South Korea. Sep 21. 2025
Anti-Lee Jae-myung Rally Draws Tens of Thousands in Daegu
Daegu, South Korea — Sept. 21, 2025
Tens of thousands of people from across the country gathered at Daegu Station on Sunday for a mass rally denouncing the administration of President Lee Jae-myung. Protesters accused Lee of steering South Korea toward communism and demanded his resignation.
Chants of “The Lee Jae-myung regime, which is trying to make the Republic of Korea a communist country, must step down. We are not the slaves of North Korea!” echoed through the crowd.
Opposition leader Jang Dong-hyuk took the stage, branding Democratic Party chief Jeong Cheong-rae “the head of a terrorist group” and calling for an end to what he described as “the reckless behavior of the DP and the Lee government.”
Jang also criticized the suspension of Lee’s trial on charges tied to five major criminal allegations, calling it “a violation of the rule of law” and demanding proceedings resume immediately.
Anti-Lee Jae-myung Rally in Daegu, South Korea. Sep 21, 2025.
The conservative People’s Power Party estimated turnout at more than 70,000. The rally marked the party’s first major outdoor gathering since a demonstration at Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul in January 2020, roughly five years and eight months ago.
Some participants voiced deep frustration with Lee’s leadership. “He violated U.N. sanctions against North Korea and, like former President Moon Jae-in, acts as Pyongyang’s spokesman,” one protester told Freedom Chosun. “He halted all trials after taking office. The judiciary surrendered to power, and the rule of law has died in South Korea.”
Critics accused the Lee administration of blocking implementation of the North Korean Human Rights Act for nearly a decade and ignoring the plight of defectors. They further alleged that illegal transfers of funds to Pyongyang were used to finance nuclear weapons and sustain Kim Jong-un’s regime.
“Under Lee Jae-myung, South Korea is rapidly becoming like North Korea,” another protester said. “The international community should not recognize him as the Republic’s legitimate president. He tries to deceive the U.S. and the West by posing as a pacifist. But the world must see clearly the dangerous ties between his government, the Democratic Party, and their sympathizers with North Korea and China’s Communist Party.”
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