South Korea Declared Martial Law… For Six Hours. Here’s What Happened.

Every so often, the world witnesses a geopolitical stunner that makes the bizarre look positively tamed by comparison. It's been a wild week around the world, a lepo just fell to a rebel alliance, Georgia is on the brink of a revolution, the vice president of the Philippines says she 's hard a contract killer to assassinate her own boss and more.

In fact, it's been the kind of week that makes you wonder if we didn't start the fire came about three and a half decades too early.

But the news that came out of South Korea on Tuesday December 3, put it all to shame, and then some. On that day, the democratically elected president of a wealthy, stable nation that's widely hailed as a model for representative democracy around the world, decided to declare martial law.