SEOUL -- With her sight seriously impaired since childhood, Kim Yea-ji has overcome obstacles all her life, becoming a concert pianist, an activist and then a lawmaker. Late into the night of Dec. 3, she came up against a hurdle she desperately wanted to climb, but couldn't -- the 2.7-meter perimeter wall at South Korea's National Assembly.
A note of defiance: Lawmaker and former concert pianist Kim Yea-ji, right, went against many in her party by voting to impeach South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, left. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Reuters, Getty Images and Jean Chung)
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