SEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean court early Thursday approved the new arrest of former President Yoon Suk Yeol on charges ...

Four months after his release, South Korea’s disgraced former President Yoon Suk Yeol has been sent back to a detention ...

South Korea's ousted leader Yoon Suk Yeol argued that his brief martial law declaration late last year was "not a coup d’etat" as he appeared in court on Monday.

On April 4, South Korea’s Constitutional Court officially dismissed Yoon Suk-yeol from the presidency. The ruling came down 111 days after the National Assembly passed its impeachment motion ...

A man wearing a mask of President Yoon Suk Yeol celebrates along with others after Yoon was removed from office, near royal palace in downtown Seoul, South Korea, Friday, April 4, 2025.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, who declared martial law and had special forces storm the National Assembly, is removed from office.

Yoon Suk Yeol removed as South Korea’s president over short-lived martial law Martial law lasted only six hours, but left behind a political crisis, rattling financial markets and unsettling the ...

Yoon is the second South Korea president to be removed from office through impeachment after Park Geun-hye in 2017.

The unanimous verdict capped a dramatic fall for Yoon, a former star prosecutor who went from political novice to president in 2022, just a year after he entered politics.