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1 month ago | 
koreajoongangdaily.joins.com | Jim Bulley |Sarah Kim |Cho Jung-Woo |Lim Jeong-won
LIVE: Korean Constitutional Court to rule on Yoon impeachment at 11 a.m. Published: 04 Apr. 2025, 09:09 To view live coverage, visit the Korea JoongAng Daily website or click "기사 원문" Yoon Suk Yeol [JOINT PRESS CORPS] WIth additional reporting from Kim Min-young and Yoon Seung-jin. BY JIM BULLEY, SARAH KIM, CHO JUNG-WOO, LIM JEONG-WON AND LEE SOO-JUNG [[email protected]]
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
koreajoongangdaily.joins.com | Sarah Kim
A Seoul court formally issued an arrest warrant early Sunday for impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over his short-lived imposition of martial law. This marks the first time in Korean constitutional history that a sitting president was formally arrested. It comes 47 days after Yoon's botched declaration of martial law on Dec. 3 last year.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
koreajoongangdaily.joins.com | Sarah Kim
Home > National > Politics dictionary Impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol appeared for a court hearing to decide whether a formal arrest warrant against him with be issued at the Seoul Western District Court on Saturday afternoon.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
koreajoongangdaily.joins.com | Sarah Kim
Home > National > Politics dictionary A Seoul court rejected late Thursday a petition to review the legality of the warrant used to arrest impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol the previous day. The Seoul Central District Court began a closed-door hearing at 5 p.m. to review the legality of Yoon's detention by the Corruption Investigation Office for High-Ranking Officials (CIO) at the request of his defense team.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
koreajoongangdaily.joins.com | Sarah Kim
Home > National > Politics dictionary Investigators of the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) and police made a second attempt to execute a warrant to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol early Wednesday. At around 4:20 a.m., vehicles carrying CIO and police investigators arrived in front of the presidential residence in Hannam-dong in Yongsan District, central Seoul.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
koreajoongangdaily.joins.com | Sarah Kim
Home > National > Politics dictionary People Power Party (PPP) floor leader Choo Kyung-ho offered to resign Saturday ahead of an impeachment vote against President Yoon Suk Yeol. Choo previously served as Yoon’s first deputy prime minister and minister of economy and finance. The president's conservative PPP said earlier Saturday it has decided to vote against Yoon's impeachment motion and a revised special counsel probe on first lady Kim Keon Hee.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
koreajoongangdaily.joins.com | Sarah Kim
Home > National > Social Affairs dictionary Subway trains are skipping National Assembly Station in central Seoul on Saturday as crowds of protesters were set to stage rallies to call for the ouster of President Yoon Suk Yeol over his back-tracked martial law declaration.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
koreajoongangdaily.joins.com | Sarah Kim
Home > National > Politics dictionary President Yoon Suk Yeol apologized for declaring emergency martial law in a televised public address at the Yongsan presidential office in Seoul Saturday. The public address at 10 a.m. came after Yoon unexpectedly declared martial law at around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday night in a televised address and lifted it six hours later, responding to the National Assembly's motion to withdraw it.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
koreajoongangdaily.joins.com | Sarah Kim
Cabinet members and military officials denied association with President Yoon Suk Yeol's short-lived emergency martial law declaration Tuesday as they were grilled by the parliament Thursday on their roles and knowledge of the situation.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
koreajoongangdaily.joins.com | Sarah Kim
Over a harrowing six-hour period, President Yoon Suk Yeol went from unexpectedly declaring emergency martial law in South Korea late Tuesday to overturning the decree after being rebuffed by parliament and facing fierce public outcry. On Wednesday, Yoon withdrew from the public eye after giving two televised addresses watched by an anxious nation as he proclaimed martial law as a means of eradicating "antistate forces" at around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, only to lift it at 4:27 a.m. Wednesday.
