Editor's Introduction: “We Are History”

As we approach the end of 2025, it feels as though many worlds have been turned upside down.At the time of this writing in early April 2025, the Constitutional Court in South Korea confirmed Yoon Suk Yeol's removal from the presidency for declaring martial law on December 3, 2024, in violation of the constitution and its democratic institutions.Some commentators justifiably cautioned against easy celebrations of democratic triumph given the global surge of fascism and the polarized politics that for Yoon and his supporters justified martial law in the first place.Although casual observers might associate the variety of light sticks and tongue-in-cheek flags that the months of protests became famous for with superficial politics, a coalition of 1,739 civil society groups led by some 140 coordinating activists under the banner BISANG Action for Yoon Out & Social Reform is anything but superficial, having organized seven months of continuous