MAGA media set their sights on South Korea

MAGA media personalities with ties to Trump ally Steve Bannon are holding a conference in South Korea with the goal of starting “a MAGA movement” in Korea called Build Up Korea. As South Korea faced political turmoil over the past year, these figures defended the former Korean president’s use of martial law and pushed wild conspiracy theories that China had infiltrated the Korean Democrat Party and interfered in the 2025 Korean presidential election. Bannon’s War Room has become a focal point of these conspiracy theories, with Bannon and his troupe repeatedly warning their audience that Yoon’s impeachment is part of a larger, worldwide movement targeting conservative leaders and that his impeachment, “to the Third World War, is Bloody Kansas to the Civil War. Or Spain, 1935.”