Entire South Korean Population Nominated,
On December 3rd last year, marking a year since martial law, citizens at Seoul Station are watching President Lee Jae-myung’s broadcast of the ‘1st Anniversary of the Revolution of Light, Special National Statement’. / Photo=Yonhap News,
, ‘The entire South Korean population has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. This is in recognition of preventing the ‘December 3 martial law’. President Lee Jae-myung welcomed this by stating “a great nation of the Korean people that will become a model in human history.”‘,
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, “According to Professor Kim Ui-young of the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Seoul National University, some political scientists, including former and current presidents of the International Political Science Association (IPA), recommended the ‘Citizen Collective’ of Korea as a Nobel Peace Prize candidate to the Norwegian Nobel Committee last month.”,
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, ‘The nominators are four individuals: Professor Kim, Pablo Onate, a political science professor at Valencia University in Spain and former president of the International Political Science Association, David Farrell, a political science professor at Dublin University in Ireland and former president of the European Political Science Association, and Azul Aguilar, current president of the Latin American Political Science Association and professor at Guadalajara University in Mexico.’,
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, “The nominators defined the citizens’ effort to prevent illegal martial law as the ‘Revolution of Light’. Furthermore, they reportedly agreed that overcoming the constitutional crisis through non-violent civic participation rather than civil war or suppression serves as a global model.”,
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, ‘The explanatory material on the “Revolution of Light” submitted to the Nobel Committee states that “from December 2024 to early 2026, Korea faced a severe constitutional crisis triggered by the illegal exercise of emergency powers, but restored constitutional order based on the rule of law, civic participation, and restrained non-violence without civil war, large-scale suppression, or international conflict expansion.”‘,
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, ‘Having previously mentioned the possibility of South Korean citizens winning the Nobel Peace Prize, President Lee welcomed the news of the nomination. He wrote on X (former Twitter), “It was possible because it is the great nation of the Korean people that will be a model in human history,” adding, “Korea can do it!”‘,
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, ‘In his “1st Anniversary of the Revolution of Light Special National Statement” broadcast on December 3rd last year, President Lee declared, “I am confident that the great Korean people are fully qualified to win the Nobel Peace Prize” and stated, “If the Korean people receive the Nobel Peace Prize for restoring peace and spreading the greatness of democracy to the whole world, it will be a significant turning point for nations struggling with conflict and division.”‘,
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