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“The fact that president after president is being impeached or jailed tells us that we need to take this as an opportunity to begin discussing how to change South Korea’s governance structure,” said Ha Sang-eung, a political scientist at Sogang University.

Ha pointed to the fact that the constitution allows lawmakers to hold Cabinet positions without giving up their seat in the National Assembly — one of several features that he argues undermines the legislature’s checks on executive power.

“I'm not 100% interested, in like, 'Ha, you're here, look at your stupid head, you’re burned!'” she says on the Daily Beast podcast.

Julie Ha, who co-directed the Emmy-awarding winning documentary “Free Chol Soo Lee,” said Lee saw parallels between himself and Chol Soo Lee.

Lee was a passionate, loud journalist Ha first met as a high school graduate in the summer of 1990 while interning at the Korea Times English Edition.