[%%IMAGE1%%]<p>  The 2016 Democracy Index by the Economist Intelligence Unit. South Korea scored 7.92 in 2016, down from 8.13 in 2012, 8.06 in 2013 and 2014, and 7.97 in 2015. The report mentioned farmer Baek Nam-ki, who died in Sep. 2016 after being knocked over by a police water cannon at a rally in Seoul in Nov. 2015. In 2015, South Korea was downgraded from Full to Flawed Democracy. </p>

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