This qualitative semiotic study examines mockery of the May 18 Democratic Uprising, Roh Moo-hyun, and Sewolho-Itaewon disasters in South Korean online far-right content. Decontextualized transfer, parasitic inversion of mourning infrastructure, and asymmetry of decoding explain how mourning signs become coded mockery whose repeated circulation obscures victimhood and weakens empathy. The findings raise ethical questions about suffering and democratic memory on platforms.

Jaeho Choi is a research-registered doctoral student who has completed the Ph.D. coursework in OTT Content Planning, Policy, and Business at the Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia & Film, Chung-Ang University. From a cultural semiotics perspective, Jaeho Choi has published six articles in NRF-indexed journals and received the Best Presentation Award in the Emerging Scholars Presentation Division at the Joint 2026 Conference of Cultural Contents Studies.