What to expect after South Korean president's indictment | AP News
Jan 27, 2025 · SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has become the country’s first leader to be indicted, less than two weeks after he was the first to be detained.. The impeached, jailed president, who had been holed up in his presidential compound for weeks after issuing a shocking martial law decree last month, now faces rebellion charges that are punishable by the death ...
Yoon Suk Yeol: South Korea impeached president arrested after
Jan 15, 2025 · 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.
What is martial law and what has happened in South Korea? - CNN
Dec 3, 2024 · South Korea is reeling after a whiplash six hours during which the country’s embattled president declared martial law but was forced to lift it amid widespread condemnation, throwing the...
Impeachments, coups and deaths: The dark side of South Korean ...
Dec 8, 2024 · Park Geun-hye, who became South Korea’s first female president in 2013, was also the first sitting president to be impeached and removed from office. A political scandal in the fall of 2016...
South Korea: Yoon charged with insurrection over martial law …
Jan 26, 2025 · South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol has been charged with insurrection after he attempted to declare martial law in December. His ill-fated attempt to impose military rule plunged the ...
Analysis: The troubled history of martial law, coups and toppled
Dec 4, 2024 · Last year, a blockbuster movie gripped South Korea with a dramatization of a painful memory from its authoritarian past, when the assassination of President Park Chung-hee in 1979 led to a...
South Korea: President Impeached for Abuse of Power
Dec 15, 2024 · (Seoul) – The South Korean National Assembly’s 204 to 85 vote to impeach President Yoon Suk-yeol on December 14, 2024 after his rejected imposition of martial law has reinforced...
South Korea’s long history of martial law – and impeachments
Dec 4, 2024 · Staunch anti-communist Syngman Rhee became its first president, imposing martial law to crack down on communists. The Korean War began on June 25, 1950, when North Korean troops entered South...
Martial law in South Korea: A critical analysis of its political and ...
In December 2024, South Korea witnessed an extraordinary suspension of democratic norms when President Yoon Suk Yeol enacted martial law, citing imminent national security threats and...
South Korea’s Leadership Crisis, Explained - The New York Times
Dec 14, 2024 · On Wednesday, Mr. Yoon became the first sitting South Korean leader to be detained for questioning by criminal investigators, who want to question him over his decision on Dec. 3 to put the...