Korea is having national assembly elections this year, it's every 4 years (president is every 5).

Korea has a demographic problem and a lot of other countries doing the export growth thing. There isn't much maneuvering room. But at least the democracy is mature and competent. Worst that can happen is a 4 year wait. In Korea, the average family has something like 150,000 USD in assets if you include their apartment which is quite a bit to lose.

I do feel South Africa has a chance sometime in the future. To clarify I meant a lot of people there are poor enough to have very little to lose. They did put in check when they tried to go a little too extreme which is a good thing. Most people just want security in the end of the day, not revenge or retribution.

Let's try to keep looking at the glass as half full.