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Maybe, though it's also more commonly lazy governance mixed with inactive citizens in a democracy; South Korea is a democracy.

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Well there's massive protests going on to oust their president.

http://www.reuters.com/news/picture/massive-protests-against...

Protesting is a lazy expression of self interest, done in massive, etc.

Taking the time to independently form and express a legally enforceable position takes substantial and ongoing effort.

Generally speaking if you were to take a group of protesters and separate them and have them express the their concerns, related reasoning, their desired change, and expected outcomes... you would get non-sense.

You would not get nonsense, you would get emotional charge. Emotions can easily overpower thought-process. Because of this, emotional charge is the de facto force of social change.

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