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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. [86] The impeachment motion was submitted to the court on 14 December 2024, and proceedings began on 16 December, [87] with the court calling the case a "top priority". [88]
On 3 December, Yoon declared martial law in South Korea, stating that martial law was necessary to defend South Korea from anti-state forces. Military and police forces attempted to prevent legislators from entering the Korea National Assembly Proceeding Hall, causing clashes between the police and military, protesters, and congressional aides.
Yoon Suk Yeol has become South Korea's first sitting president to be arrested after investigators scaled barricades and cut through barbed wire to take him into custody. Yoon, 64, is being ...
Protesters take part in a demonstration against impeached South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol as they march on a street in Seoul on January 11 (AFP via Getty Images)
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 ...
SEOUL (Reuters) -A South Korean court gave authorities approval on Tuesday to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol in a criminal investigation into his martial law decree, marking the first ...
Yoon Suk Yeol has become South Korea’s first incumbent president to be arrested after he was charged with insurrection for declaring martial law last month and thrusting the country into ...
South Korea's impeached president Yook Suk Yeol has been charged with insurrection over his short-lived martial law declaration on 3 December. The 64-year-old was arrested on 15 January, following ...