On December 3 last year, marking one year since the 12·3 illegal martial law, President Lee Jae Myung delivers the ‘First Anniversary of the Revolution of Light, Special National Address’ at the Presidential Office building in Yongsan, Seoul. Kim Chang-gil, reporter

President Lee Jae Myung stated regarding the nomination of the people of the Republic of Korea who opposed the 12·3 illegal martial law for the Nobel Peace Prize that “It was possible because this is the Republic of Korea, the nation of the great Daehan citizens who will be a model in human history. The Republic of Korea does it.”

On the night of the 18th, on X, President Lee shared an article titled <The people of the Republic of Korea who blocked the 12·3 martial law have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize> and wrote this. According to the report, Kim Ui-young, a professor in the Department of Political Science at Seoul National University who attended the World Political Science Association Seoul Congress last July, along with foreign university professors who served as presidents of the World Political Science Association and the European Political Science Association, and a foreign university professor who is president of the Latin American Political Science Association, recommended the Republic of Korea’s ‘all citizens’ who blocked the illegal martial law to the Norwegian Nobel Committee last month as candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize.

On December 3 last year, marking the first anniversary of the illegal martial law, President Lee said in a special national address, “I am convinced that we Daehan citizens, who have overcome an unprecedented crisis of democracy in world history in a peaceful manner, are fully qualified to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.”

In the statement, he said, “If the Daehan citizens receive the Nobel Peace Prize for reviving democracy, restoring peace, and informing the whole world of the greatness of democracy, it will be a major turning point for all countries shaken by conflict and division.”

At the time, he said, “The fact that our citizens, through peaceful means and in accordance with procedures set by the Constitution and the law, repelled the illegal martial law and drove out unjust power is an epochal event that will be long remembered in the history of world democracy,” adding, “because it proved how much strength democratic institutions and peaceful solutions can exert when realized through a people who properly exercise their sovereignty.”