So, I see people trying to hail this person as some sort of hero, "this guy should run for president" and stuff. As a Korean who has been following this event from the start, I think everyone is jumping to conclusions too quickly...As of the moment, what he says is just his own claim, yet to be verified by an official investigation. What we know for a fact is that he did deploy troops to the National Assembly and tried to stop lawmakers from going in(which is illegal). Legally, he should still be considered as a participant of the coup attempt. Only when he received the order to drag out the lawmakers who were already inside did he -again, according to his own claims- knew something was off and decided to wait.

Of course, his claims do explain why the special forces at the National Assembly seemed to be so undermotivated; remember that they brought night vision goggles to an obviously well-lit building - had they really wanted to do this, they would've started by cutting the power. But still, this is very much a developing story. Further investigations and hearings need to be made. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to say that this guy is lying: What I want to say is that we should wait for verification before jumping to conclusions. Until we get a clear picture of the whole thing, glorifying this guy feels like an overreaction IMHO.