South Korean opposition parties introduced a bill Thursday calling for an independent investigation into impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol's brief martial law declaration.

Critics of the presidential security service call it a relic from the days of South Korea's strongman leaders.

A South Korean court on Tuesday approved an arrest warrant for President Yoon Suk Yeol, the embattled leader who plunged the country into political chaos by his shock decision to declare martial law nearly a month ago.

South Korea’s anti-corruption agency dispatched investigators to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol on Friday.

Tensions ran high near the residence of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol Thursday, as rival protesters clashed and hundreds of supporters formed a blockade to prevent his imminent arrest.

“South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol will accept the decision of the Constitutional Court that is trying parliament’s impeachment case against him, even if it decides to remove the suspended leader from office,” his lawyer said on Thursday (January 9, 2025).

South Korean investigators on Friday were attempting to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over his short-lived martial law decree last month, as hundreds of his supporters gathered at his residence in Seoul,

Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, in a message to conservative supporters, vowed to 'fight to the end' against 'anti-state forces.'

THE NEW AMERICAN EXPORT — The U.S. has long exported its cultural products to South Korea, flexing its soft power within the country through Hollywood products and academic exchanges. It now appears to be exporting something different — Donald Trump’s politics of defiance and norm-breaking.

South Korea's Yoon Suk Yeol's attempt to hold on to power is a reminder of how much chaos leaders create when they try to thwart democracy, says Karishma Vaswani for Bloomberg Opinion.

South Korean opposition parties introduced a bill Thursday calling for an independent investigation into impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol’s brief martial law declaration.