Rule of law as institutional substrate — contract enforcement, judicial independence, equal treatment before the law. Upstream of most other axes.
Independence of the judiciary from executive and legislative encroachment. Specifically captures court-packing, selective prosecution, judicial reshuffles.
Shortly before 23:00 KST on 3 December 2024 President Yoon Suk-yeol issued Emergency Martial Law Proclamation No. 1, citing "anti-state forces" inside the DP-controlled National Assembly, banning political activity, placing media under military command, and deploying special- forces units to the assembly building. The National Assembly, voting 190-0 at approximately 01:00 on 4 December, demanded lifting of the declaration per Article 77(5) of the Constitution; Yoon rescinded at roughly 04:30. The assembly then passed an impeachment motion 204-85 on 14 December 2024 (PPP floor divided: ~12 members crossed). The Constitutional Court, in ruling 2024Hun-Na8 on 4 April 2025, held 8-0 that the declaration violated the constitutional martial-law conditions and removed Yoon from office. An early presidential election under Article 68(2) was held 3 June 2025, won by DP's Lee Jae-myung (~49.4%).
Per invariant 3, reforms are scored by what they did on each channel-separated axis, not by the party that enacted them. This fingerprint is how the policy-match engine finds historical analogues.
Explicit links are curated by the author. Inferred links are hypotheses in the library that test the same axes this policy moved — the framework's answer to "what does the data say about a policy like this?".
Ranked by axis-fingerprint overlap with this policy. Direction match bolded — those are the closest historical analogues. Shape of the match is what drives policy-outcome comparison, not the country or party label.