WATCH: South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol addresses Congress

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol delivers a speech to a joint session of Congress on April 27. Read more: wapo.st/40NvMma. Subscribe to The Washington Post on KZbin: wapo.st/2QOdcqK
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[@YoursUntruly]

More than 26,000 Canadians served in Korea as well on land, at sea and in the air during the Korean War.. Sadly, 516 Canadians died but by my grandfather survived. He’s my absolute hero and this video makes me so happy to see that even decades later the freedom they all fought for and the relationships between our countries are still just as relevant today 🇨🇦🇰🇷🇺🇸🖤

[@danmacarthur8944]

Your grandfather made a difference for a whole nation of people who were surrounded by enemies.

[@jackiechan3332]

Your army's death rate really much lower than the common level comparing with US army, so your grandfather and Canada army hardly to be called 'Hero'..... hahaha

[@jackiechan3332]

Your army's death rate really much lower than the common level comparing with US army, so your grandfather and Canada army hardly to be called 'Hero'..... hahaha

[@max_7344]

I express my sincere gratitude and respect for the fact that today's Republic of Korea can exist thanks to the dedication of more than 26,000 Canadians, including your grandfather. Koreans do not forget that Canada is one of the Republic of Korea's true allies and the only unrestricted currency swap partner in North America. Once again, with all my heart, I express my gratitude and respect for your grandfather's dedication. Sincerely, from the Republic of Korea

[@YoursUntruly]

@@max_7344 🇨🇦🤝🏻🇰🇷

[@lovelypuppyteddy]

As an American, I was deeply touched by the speech and felt a strong sense of kinship with Republic of Korea as an unwavering ally. 🇺🇸 ❤ 🇰🇷

[@jackiechan3332]

GO to Souch Korea, Feel their lady, u will be touched again

[@mysmith7]

Great speech from President Yoon, and a sorely needed reminder of our history and the soul of democracy. It's good to know we not only have a global ally but a friend who will help bring us back to our senses when we need it.

[@user-fu5uw9zibm]

We go together🇰🇷❤🇺🇲

[@luciano3907]

Thinking of past I can't really believe that my president did that speech in the US! hope S.Korea and US friendship going good in many many good ways~

[@user-re4vj7os3q]

한국과 미국은 실상은 형제국 입니다

[@danmacarthur8944]

I have not heard such a reminder from any other foreign leader of why the US supports and defends principled freedom in the world as South Korea's president presented here. This was surprising. What other foreign national leader has articulated the importance of our alliances so well? Veterans and missionaries sacrificed their lives so Korea could have a chance at brilliant freedom. Also, when has Congress been so amicably united in enthusiastic applause over anything?

[@user-re4vj7os3q]

한국전쟁 1950년 6.25일 미국 병사 많이 죽었어요 한국인은 그날을 잊지 않읍니다 미국 항상 감사해요 ~!

[@eternallife721]

Thank you so much ROK President! God bless USA and Korea forever!

[@user-re4vj7os3q]

지금도 미국 감사해요~!♥♥♥♥♥ 이세상 끋나는 날까지 미국과 한국 형제에요~!!!!

[@user-cc4uf7vr4d]

South Korea will defend freedom and democracy with US forever !

[@YoursUntruly]

🇨🇦🇺🇸🇰🇷

[@jackiechan3332]

Thanks for your president to defend the Freedom of Japan's army all the actions in your land, especially to your girls and mothers, a great, loverly, a typical Korean, sure

[@user-ex7di9qj3r]

freedom to invade other 'undemocratic country' such as iraq? Or freedom not to pay for tort admissioned by supreme court ?

[@YoursUntruly]

@@user-ex7di9qj3r Kind of like when America and Canadians like my grandfather invaded Korea, fighting along side South Korea against radical North Korean dictatorship. Oh sorry, you must have forgot about when the Americas saved your country and family from North Koreas oppressive regimes.

[@YoursUntruly]

@@user-ex7di9qj3r Ungrateful is too kind of a word for you.

[@jhk4457]

Very proud of having Yoon as a president of R.O.K.

[@roywolfgang3167]

a good running dog of the US, i am proud of it too.

[@user-lp4uc6xm6d]

Keep bowing to 🇯🇵 flag. South Koreans are SPINELESS cowards.

[@Jasmine-ls2ku]

Great speech

[@yeahggkim8069]

자랑스럽다❤🎉

[@rkdnlths98]

God bless you ❤❤❤❤

[@jkim3275]

We are just about to rebuild our relationship which was broken last five years by the former president who was extremely skewed to China which was not supported by any single Korean citizens. Now we are on the right direction. So glad to see it. God bless our alliance.

[@jackiechan3332]

you president foolish action willl push we china help your brother can cook you in the first time w/ any dirty weapons,LOL

[@gray4551]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ 사랑해요 윤석열 스피치 내용 다시 들어봐도 대단합니다. 캐피톨 힐에서도 인기폭발이군요!!

[@onechoi76]

❤❤ freedom! Yes! 윤석열 자랑스럽다~

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[@anjagabriel7682]

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[@mas-pf5pz]

역대 대통령중에 제일 멋있는것 같습니다. 응원합니다.

[@princessjullee17]

The Korean president who speaks English really well is also from Seoul University Law School! proud korean president!

[@sunrightkim]

"Lawschools" didn't exist in South Korea at the time. It was a law department of Seoul University.

[@princessjullee17]

@@sunrightkim 아마도 당신은 한국인 인듯 한데 그당시 한국엔 LAW SCHOOL 이 아닌 사법고시를 PASS 해야 했고 요즘 한국어로 "법대" 출신 하면 그 시대에 "법"을 전공한걸 뜻하는걸 몰라요? 쓸대 없는 태클을 왜 걸지?

[@princessjullee17]

@@sunrightkim Perhaps you are Korean, At that time in Korea, you had to pass the bar exam, not LAW SCHOOL. Why are you making useless tackles?

[@michaellim4165]

​@BingBing Le He/she was stating facts. You are the one who interpreted as a "tackle".

[@princessjullee17]

@@michaellim4165 The reason is that Koreans in Korea underestimate President Yoon and I might have been too sensitive. Thank you for your explanation

[@gwonchanjasonyoon8087]

So proud!

[@peronliu6886]

proud to have a good running dog as your president?

[@user-cr4kj8yd2l]

South Korean people really funny! 😂😂😂

[@jackiechan3332]

@@user-cr4kj8yd2l Yes, next time when China Army in your capital we'll learn Japan, anyway , your gov will pay the cost, LOL

[@user-hi2tt2bd3o]

국격 상승 멋찐 대한민국 대통령님 자랑스럽네요

[@drewlsy]

Poignant speech. "Synergy" is the operative word and theme throughout, and I couldn't agree more! Korea's technological prowess in terms of their economy is a testament to this relationship.

[@deekay5794]

Do you even know what poignant means lol your comment doesn’t make sense and it’s contradictory. Its like saying “disgusting sandwich, the flavor and texture of the hamburger were amazing and delicious”

[@drewlsy]

@@deekay5794 Well, I thought it was touching anyway. It's subjective. I was moved, or found it to be "moving" in terms of illiciting an evocation of memory, likened to an emotional response.

[@hussienalsafi1149]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@aronax4492]

သက်သေမတရားတင်ပြနေတာအတွက်နိုင်ငံကြီတယ်မေရိကဒိမိုကရေစီးဥိးစားပေးတာကျွန်မနိုင်ငံဒိမိုနိုင်ငံဖြစ်နေလို့မတရားလုပ်ကြံနေကြတာကည့်နေတယ်ကျွန်မစတိုရီရေးပေးတာယ်ရှိတယ်ပတ်စပို့လုပ်ထားတယ်မထွက်သေးဘူးကိုယ်ခလေးကိုယ်နိုင်ငံကိုယ်ရဲ့ခလေးထိန်နေတယ်မအယးညဘက်ခနစတိုးရေးဖို့ကြည့်

[@aronax4492]

13:25

[@김미령-b4h]

🌷🍀🇰🇷❤️🇺🇸🍀🌷

[@holyTripleSix]

BLACKPINK!

[@dgfgvutjv]

🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

[@sona-zg7uq]

great~!!

[@seoulman2743]

better speaker than our p or vp.

[@hearti2023]

Best president in Korea . He is Yoon

[@newarteest]

er am I mishearing, or did McCarthy get his name wrong when announcing him around 23:25

[@kimws33]

위대한 대한민국 대통령 윤석열 & 위대한 미 합중국 대통령 조 바이든💕💞💯💪👍👍👍👍

[@munmun9892]

So, you understand😉😉😉😉 North🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 America.... One hand✋✋✋give one hand take🤝🤝🤝...

[@user-rg6bk3ev1h]

Immortal and eteral Truth is Freedom!!!!!!!!

[@myunggibaek7286]

Do you know??.. What dose mean a FREEDOM???.... President Yoon did apealed the meanning of the FREEDOM!.... God bless FREEDOM!... God bless President Yoon's reveal of FREEDOM!

[@user-re4vj7os3q]

사실 한국은 영어 잘 못해요~!♥♥

[@WuttichaiPokhee]

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[@munmun9892]

As like Afghanistan🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫 They do so... Some extended...

[@bittergourd293]

不得不说，韩国人这方面，做的很棒，令人佩服

[@munmun9892]

There is🙏🙏🙏🙏one slogan always uttar in 🗽🗽in Greenplanet 🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍Trust North 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸American people, they're always🙏🙏🙏🙏 think about your wellness...

[@aronax4492]

ကျွန်မနိုင်ငံဘုရားတည်တယ်ကျောင်းမရှိတယ်လူတွေလူတယ်ကျွန်မအမျိုးသားရှာတယ်ပိုက်ဆံဆုပြီးလူနေတာပါ

[@eliasgonz8681]

it's like the korea society

[@marylaistirland6864]

what a shanagan

[@om0005]

As Korean, feel like being Frodo who will throw the ring to fire against Xi-uron. Korea is literally halfling, Japan maybe Sam, I guess.

[@user-bv4kv7kk8w]

God bless USA! God bless ROK!

[@jackiechan3332]

NONO, China will bless you after this by helping your amazing northern brother, hahahhaa

[@Jessicakim22]

44:20

[@johnsolis6933]

Bts and blackpink 😂😂💗

[@munmun9892]

They're always🙏🙏🙏🙏 with you. But ( business is in return🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏(a basic demand) by them, to do lots of🗽🗽🗽🗽 investment)

[@HappyLife12233]

miss clothethhorse.

[@juhyokang2571]

Ok in ok

[@gxi9931]

The master definitely feeds his dog up before letting it loose

[@aronax4492]

အသံဖိုင်မရတာဟလိုပြောနေတာ​ပါ

[@andyli7598]

a tail of us

[@aronax4492]

woman ပိုက်ဆံမြင့်နေတာကျွန်မမလိုချင်ဘူး

[@manquangduy6932]

😂😂😂😂 joker

[@陳勝子]

は

[@lisakong8651]

a political newbie who doesnt know who he's dealing with

[@Sangry89]

says another brainless communist filth.

[@jackiechan3332]

A so lovely puppy

[@memmingen2010]

Another CCP puppy.

[@leesnow-yh1mq]

SK: yap-yap! yap-yap! yap-yap! yap-yap! yap-yap! yap-yap! US: Good boy！

[@amoshkkim]

I was not really impressed by his speech. American people can be impressed but his speech is actually provoking war. Both Biden and Yoon should work harder to promote peace in Korean peninsula, instead of cornering North Korea enough to resort to nuclear weapon. As a South Korean citizen, I have to say that Yoon's voice does not necessarily the voice of all South Korean people.

[@leesnow-yh1mq]

Flattery. Disgraceful ！

[@user-do4ov7tc7v]

you are spy receiving money from ccp. i am sure..

[@khftg-i2s]

ㅈㄹ 찢빠 섹기 여기와서도 ㅈㄹ이네

[@Hoo88846]

🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

[@Jacob-xs8vu]

i guess you are allergic to US democracy

[@Hoo88846]

@@Jacob-xs8vu Yeah, US keeps toppling leaders democratically elected. In 2014, they toppled the democratically elected former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych and replaced him with Zelensclown as a puppet. And democracy is a joke if our politicians just give empty promises during elections and then do whatever they want after the elections. These two warmongers keep having military drills at the doorway of China and North Korea. USA the most evil nation and the most warmongering nation in the world has more than 750 American overseas military bases stationed in 80 countries surrounding Russia and China like a game of weiqi. All USA does is keep making up fake some “under threat” reports or keep slandering other nations as “evil” so as to legitimize their aggressions and invasions of other countries. I am sick of our psychopathic politicians. South Korea isn’t a victim either. It keeps provoking North Korea. USA makes brothers fight against each other. USA makes Koreans divide over communism and split them up into two countries. It’s doing the same attempting to alienate Taiwan PROVINCE from China in gross violation of One China Policy in United Nation and the One China Policy clearly stated in the Taiwan Constitution. USA keeps selling weapons to South Koreans to provoke war with North Korea and China, and keeps instigating many nations to group bully China and Russia. Taiwan PROVINCE has been part of China longer than USA has been a nation! I hope China can sell weapons to Hawaiians and advocate their independence. USA is apparently trying to alienate and fund separatist movements in China trying to break China up both geographically and culturally! So when you see these two warmongering nations talking about “peace” and “stability”, it’s like listening to Adolf Hitler telling you he advocates for world peace and no genocide. Two warmongers and gaslighters.

[@user-jb8em5eu7s]

FBI watch Yoon Suk Yeol

[@user-sv9rn7mk9m]

Omgg,A real dog of the United states 😂

[@user-bz8gg1io7j]

천멸중공!

[@dutchesssatine1316]

Down with Communist!

[@user-sv9rn7mk9m]

@@user-bz8gg1io7j 빌어먹을 놈

[@user-sv9rn7mk9m]

@@dutchesssatine1316 I don't think communists care about American puppy. They have just never seen a president of another country sing “Amrican pie”in front of Joe biden.... Real doggie diplomacy. He also let korean company pay for Japanese war crime indemnity😄

[@user-sv9rn7mk9m]

@@user-bz8gg1io7j Forever doggie of the United states ,China and Japan😄

[@xgguo3531]

Not sure why Yoon mentioned The Battle at Lake Changjin in his speech. It was a battle of devastating defeat of US Amy and retreat from the border of China-Korea. At the time of Korea war 1950, US GDP was 10 times of China GDP and still not able to win the Korea war. Good to learn from history.

[@jaihoonsim]

Learn real history, not CCP propaganda: That was great sacrifice to save so many Korean citizens and Korean and US army soldiers.

[@xgguo3531]

@@jaihoonsim The west propoganda made a defeat and retreat of this battle in Korea war as a victory and did not really learn lessons from it. Korea war ended without a winner , and it leads to the US failure of Vienam war.

[@jaihoonsim]

@@xgguo3531 We do not welcome CCP propaganda here. If you want copy CCP comments here, please get out here. If CCP claims are all correct, why CCP block free international information flow? China has strong interests in reporting few people killed in car accidents in Seoul street, but do not report your own tragic deaths happen in China of more than 100 people. Thanks.

[@rawjor]

@@xgguo3531 Its not about who wins which battle, its about what your fighting for. Even in defeat fighting for democracy and freedom is always more righteous than winning a war for an authoritarian government such as North Korea (and to a lesser extent, China). You missed the entire point of why it was brought up. Brother and Sisters stood against tyranny that day.

[@xgguo3531]

@@rawjor Syngman Rhee，the South Korea president during Korea war was a dictator and his gorvernment was an authoritarian government. US soliders lost their lives for Syngman Rhee and his government but not for democracy .

[@dale9146]

A great speech of no content

[@user-py1jw3kp4p]

American puppy, that’s how I feel

[@khftg-i2s]

That's because you're Xi Jinpooh's puppet

[@kjjan1801]

그는 미성숙하다.미국의 배려를 기대한다

[@Julian_0222]

Good Dog

[@Ooooookokos]

더러운 중국새끼 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 한 나라 대통령을 개라고 부르냐? ㅋㅋㅋ

[@user-vj3zd6uy2j]

Nobody likes china 😂😂😂😂😂

[@dutchesssatine1316]

Go away you dirty chinese

[@jerryhan207]

자기 대통령을 보고 미국인들 앞에서 개처럼 굴면 한국인들은 어떻게 생각하는지 모르겠다.아마 동무들은 천성적으로 이미 좋은 개가 되는데 습관되였을것이다.

[@user-zr9jg5gd9d]

A really puppy!!

[@makeshift722]

Samsung’s profit plunge underscores damage US ‘chip war’ has on the global semiconductor sector' "The South Korean tech giant said on Friday that it expects operating profits to dive by more than 96 percent year-on-year to 600 billion won ($455 million) in the first quarter of 2023, marking a 14-year low." With friends like this, who needs enemies

[@user-px5xe1zb5f]

Thanks to the US 'chip war', technology barrier was made for CXMT YMTC. This is such a good oportunity for Samsung and SK Hynix to widen the technology level in the long term. From next year, there will be memory up cycle.

[@michaellim4165]

Russian bot

[@leesnow-yh1mq]

@@user-px5xe1zb5f Would you offend your biggest client with good results? Relying on political power to reverse the decline in market competitiveness?

[@leesnow-yh1mq]

@@immabee542 The inferiority complex of Koreans is known all over the world. You are a frog in a well. Go out and see more to know what's going on in this world. Are Koreans proud of being Colonized by Japan? being Colonized by America? And there are not many advantageous industries for your country. If it weren't for trade with China, your economy wouldn't be so good. By the way, I forgot to remind you that South Korea has already started a trade deficit. In the future, you will lose 30 years just like Japan.

[@shihang-sl2ov]

The loyalest dog of American ever, great job and keep on ❤

[@peronliu6886]

what a good dog is

[@user-bz8gg1io7j]

천멸중공!

[@dutchesssatine1316]

Disgusting Chinese

[@mikedai3232]

A really qualified puppy!!

[@abcabc-wn1yd]

hahaha changjin battle is the most humiliated defeat US army ever had. 25000 US troops were killed. Its general was killed. Why yoon humiliated usa in US congress?

[@immabee542]

^ ccp bot

[@MrBlinder514]

Do you expect them to know the history? Lol

[@leesnow-yh1mq]

@@immabee542 Isn't what he said true? Only Koreans can call a successful escape after a defeat a great victory! General Walker, the US commander, was killed in a car accident by a fleeing South Korean soldier. This is the highest-ranking general who has died since the US participated in World War II. Aren't Koreans embarrassed? LOL

[@stock2459]

Great speech

[@aronax4492]

ကျွန်မနိုင်ငံထမင်းဟင်းစားဖို့ရှိတယ်ကိုယ်ကလုပ်ငန်းသေးပေး😅မယ်ကိုယ်အတွက်လုံဟေလာက်တယ်ပိုက်ဆံများရင်ကျွန်မမထိန်နိုင်ဘူးဒေါမောဟကိုယ်ပိုက်ဆံဘယ်သူခိုးမလည်စိတ်ကပြစ်မှားမယ်ဘာ်လိုထိန်သိမ်းရမလည်းမောဟကြီးမယ်ကျွန်မမလိုချင်းဘူးကျွန်မနိုင်ငံမှာလာစုံစမ်းအိမ်ကနေနယ်မသာွးဘူးအချိန်မရွေးစုံစမ်းလို့ရတယ်

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မှန်ကန်ဆုံဖြတ်ချက်powerလုပ်ပါကျွန်မကျွန်မနိုင်ငံကနေနေ့တိုင်းစျေးဝယ်နေ့တိုင်ဟင်းချက်ကျွန်မမြို့ကျွန်မနေရာလူတိုင်မြင်ထားတယ်ကျွန်ဘယ်နိုင်ငဖံနမသာွးဘူသက်သေရှိတယ်ကျွန်မကမှန်တယ်လူအကပစ်ချတာကြည့်ပြီးလုပ်ကြပါနော်ကျွန်မနေ့တိုင်ှိတာကိုနေ့တိုင်းစျေးကျွန်မအိမ်နားနေ့တိုင်မြင်တယ်ကော်ဖီဆိုင်ဘေးကပ်ရပ်ခလေးထိန်နေတာတွေနေ့တိုင်းမြင်တယ်ရှင်တို့ကို့ကျွန်မမုန်းနေတယ့်လူလုပ်ကြံဖြစ်မယ်ကျွန်မကလိုက်ဖ်မလုပ်တတ်ဘူးအသံဖိုင်ဖွင့်ကြည့်တယ်မတွေ့ဘးအယ်ီးအတွက်မြင်အမေရိကန်စင်တာသာွးမယ်ဆိုတာနဲ့ချက်ခြင်းလုပ်ကြံတာဘယ်သူလုပ်တာလည်းတွေးကြည့်ပါကျွန်မစတိုးရီရေးတာသူတို့နစ်နာလို့လုပ်ကြံတာဖြစ်မယ်