Seems like the balances of power worked properly here, though. The president went rogue, and the rest of the government told him to get fucked.
Even a lot of parliamentary systems have presidents, with similar controls. The problem with the US is that the legislature has been enabling executive power creep for centuries. If they're already not acting in good faith, no amount of social rules will keep them in check.
Direct democracy needs to have some sort of concept of human rights enshrined in its system somehow, and make it very hard to violate, otherwise, it could get ugly. Mob rule isn't always good. It could easily lead to torches and pitchfork "justice".
And representative rule doesn’t lead to “justice” presently?
I’m so sick and tired of hearing this argument against direct democracy in that if it doesn’t solve every flaw we have today that it should be viewed skeptically.
You were confused? In this story about democratically electing parliaments and presidents, you needed it clarified whether they were talking about North Korea or South Korea?
It is quite common for people to refer to South Korea as just korea as I've heard time and time again. There is also the fact that in this context, the south is implied even just in the post title alone.