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Article snippet: The two movements that culminated in this week’s presidential elections could hardly seem, from the outside, more different. In -third of the national vote. In Tuesday of Moon Jae-in, who will become one of the few left-leaning leaders in the country’s history. One movement is solidly right-wing, skeptical of institutions from the European Union to the news media and soaked in the politics of division. The other is left-wing but less categorically so, embraces institutions like those that oversaw Ms. Park, and seeks to bridge social divides. Yet the movements share a common architecture of grievance. In both, supporters felt shut out by an unresponsive political establishment. Both accused the incumbent president of selling out the people to corrupt, moneyed interests. Both saw their only choice as rising up to disrupt the status quo and force change. Their divergence reveals both the common traits in anti-establishment backlashes globally and the range between extremes those movements can fall within. And they hint at the fuzzy nature of populism, a label applied more readily to France than to South Korea. For several weeks this fall, every Saturday, as thousands of South Koreans gathered in city centers to call for the impeachment of Ms. Park, they would often sing the first article of their country’s Constitution. “The sovereignty of the Republic of Korea shall reside in the people, and all state authority shall emanate from the people,” the line reads in Eng... Link to the full article to read more