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Comprehensive reform measures for strengthening and advancing democracy : based on nationwide regional forums held following the 2024 constitutional crisis
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ing of Brazils National Congress 2 . The discourse of these anti-constitutional forces is also deeply entangled with historical animos­ity rooted in thered complex, a legacy shaped by the division of the Korean Peninsula. Far-right YouTube channels and similar outlets have la­beled state-perpetrated atrocitiessuch as the Jeju April 3 Incident and the May 18 Democra­tization Movementasriots, branding innocent civilian victims with outdated stigmas such as Workers' Party of South Korea orreds, thereby distorting historical fact. This constitutes a reviv­al of hate rhetoric once used as a tool of author­itarian rule, now redeployed as a logic to justify the current anti-constitutional behavior. 2 In Brazil, supporters of former President Jair Bol­sonaro stormed and occupied the Supreme Court, the National Congress, and the presidential palace in Brasília on January 8, 2023, in protest against the inauguration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The following day, the Brazilian authorities announced that the riots had been fully sup­pressed, and on January 14, Anderson TorresBol­sonaros former Minister of Justicewas arrested on charges of involvement in the election-denial uprising. The Supreme Court later accepted the prosecutors request to open an investigation into Bolsonaro himself for incitement of the unrest. These groups have also expanded on a solid so­cial base built through the politicization of hate. At the core of the far-right and anti-constitutional forces defending the December 3 insurrection are conservative Protestant organizations that, over the past two decades, have cultivated powerful organizational networks and financial capaci­ty by mobilizing around sexual minority hatred, anti-feminism, and opposition to anti-discrim­ination legislation. Across regional forumsin­cluding those in Chuncheon, Gwangju, and Dae­jeongroups opposing queer cultural festivals and the Student Human Rights Ordinance were consistently identified as key actors threatening local democracy. The December 3 insurrection represents the inevitable consequence of these hate-driven forces expanding their reach beyond the social sphere and into the political realm, where they ultimately moved to defend an at­tempted rebellion. Therefore, restoring democracy must begin with institutionally blocking the politics of hate that constitute their central source of power. II. Overview of Institutional Reform Pro­posals Four Pillars for Strengthening and Advancing Democracy 1. Basic Direction of the Proposals: Isolating Anti-Constitutional Forces and Advancing Inclusive Democracy The December 3 insurrection incident revealed that democracy can regress at any moment, ele­vating the attainment of full resilience to a core national mission for a government grounded in 8