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Yoon's impeachment became the eighth impeachment case in 2024 alone received by the court – the highest number in a single year in South Korean history. [ 85 ] The impeachment motion was submitted to the court on 14 December 2024, and proceedings began on 16 December, [ 86 ] with the court calling the case a "top priority". [ 87 ]
The trial, which must conclude within 180 days from the date of Yoon's impeachment, could take months to resolve. If the court decides to remove Yoon from office, a presidential election must be ...
14 December: Mr Yoon is impeached by the parliament with the support of 204 of the 300 lawmakers in the one-chamber parliament. At least 12 PPP members vote to impeach.
Mr Yoon is the second conservative president in a row to be impeached in South Korea. Park Geun-hye was removed from office in 2017. Park Geun-hye was removed from office in 2017.
On 3 December 2024, at 10:27 pm Korea Standard Time (KST), Yoon Suk Yeol, the president of South Korea, declared martial law during a televised address. In his declaration, Yoon accused the Democratic Party (DPK), which has a majority in the National Assembly, of conducting "anti-state activities" and collaborating with "North Korean communists" to destroy the country, thereby creating a ...
President Yoon Suk Yeol, foreground, with wife Kim Keon-hee at an official event in Daegu, South Korea, in June. The Constitutional Court now has 180 days to rule on his impeachment.
Impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol was detained by South Korean police at his residence in Seoul on Wednesday local time, ABC News confirmed. The detention comes weeks after investigators first ...
South Korean President Yoon Suk-Yeol, photographed in the Philippines on Oct. 7, 2024. Credit - Ezra Acayan—Getty Images. I t’s the end of a standoff that had veered from the bizarre to the ...