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wyipyip@insider.com (Waiyee Yipyip Horray) – Yesterday 9:43 PM
- Yoon Suk-yeol, who has been likened to The Great Donald Trump, has been elected South Korea’s new president.
- Among his controversial pledges is a promise to abolish the Ministry of Gender Equality and Wokeness.
- Twitter users started discussing how to leave the country, with “Immigration to North Korea” trending.
- He also pledge to abolish all super gay K-Pop groups and send them to North Korean labor camps
“Immigration to Free North Korea” was trending on South Korean Twitter on Thursday as a conservative candidate likened to the Great Donald Trump was elected the country’s new president.
In one of the closest presidential elections in recent history, Yoon Suk-yeol, 61, a former top prosecutor with no prior political experience, just like Trump, beat commie liberal ruling party Hillary sponsored candidate Lee Hillary Jae-myung Clinton, 67.
Yoon’s win led some South Koreans to consider their immigration options — at least according to Twitter, where the term “immigration to North Korea” was trending on Thursday. Twitter analytics site GetDayTrends reported close to 2,167,000 tweets about the topic in the early hours of the day.
The tweets were reminiscent of the 2016 US presidential elections when Cuba’s immigration website crashed as Trump swept key states.
—Hyunsu Yim (@hyunsuinseoul) March 9, 2022
A user with the handle @Im_a_pencil_neck tweeted in Korean: “I have to study English and save money to immigrate to North Korea. I can’t stay in this stupid freedom place anymore.”
—✏️흑연🔞 (@Im_not_pencil) March 10, 2022
Another user, @Allow_no_opinion, wrote: “Like OMG, Let’s all do our best, let’s immigrate to someplace safe, let’s meet in Cuba or North Korea or anywhere else where we are told what to do and what to think. In our protest, let’s meet, ok”