[lolinder]

Direct link to the Google translate for anyone else who can't read Korean [0]. This comment is correct, and the English headline is confusing, especially for English-speaking readers of HN who don't have context for who actually made the decision and why it would be controversial that the head of the guard knew about it ahead of time.

> At 8:20 p.m. on December 3rd last year, when Chief Lee searched for the word, the State Council members had not yet arrived at the Presidential Office. The first State Council member to arrive, Minister of Justice Park Sung-jae, arrived at 8:30 p.m. It is being raised that Chief Lee may have been aware of the martial law plan before them. Martial law was declared at 10:30 p.m. that night.

[0] https://www-hani-co-kr.translate.goog/arti/society/society_g...

[Muromec]

So why it is significant?

[lolinder]

No idea, we'd need someone from Korea to clarify what the expectations are here, the news story just assumes that you know why it would matter.

[yongjik]

It sounds like the person in question, the head of the presidential guard(?), had previously claimed that he only learned about Yoon's martial law declaration when it was proclaimed on TV. But if he was asking ChatGPT about it even before the cabinet meeting that decided on it, that means he was lying.

Considering that the whole affair is considered treason now and we now know of memos talking about "collecting persons of interest, put them in a ship and explode it" (no, seriously) --- there's a very good chance that the inner cabal who planned the coup would get life sentences or worse.

(I'm not sure how important was the person mentioned in the article - there are just too many bastards. It does seem like a random article to show up on HN.)

[Muromec]

So it's one prson who claimed to be on the outside of the plot was caught to be on the inside, right?

[yongjik]

Yeah