Tag Archives: Yoon Suk Yeol

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA | Xinhua | South Korea’s Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) said Wednesday that during the investigation conducted from 11:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. local time, the impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol consistently refused to make any statements and declined to allow the questioning process to be …

SEOUL | Xinhua | As the arrest warrant against South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol was extended, investigators are preparing a second attempt to detain Yoon. They have expressed their resolution that the second attempt will be the final. Experts believe that uncertainty remains in the second operation to arrest …

SEOU | Xinhua |  South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol will not attend the first hearing of his impeachment trial, scheduled for Tuesday, for safety concerns, Yoon’s defense counsel said Sunday. Yun Gap-geun, Yoon’s lawyer, was quoted by multiple media outlets as saying that concerns remained about safety and mishaps as …

SEOUL | TASS | The Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) of the Republic of Korea decided to delegate execution of the arrest warrant against President Yoon Suk Yeol to police, the authority said. “The Corruption Investigation Office passed execution of the arrest warrant for suspect [with the surname …

SEOUL | Xinhua |  Chief of South Korea’s presidential security service, Park Jong-joon, on Sunday vowed to keep blocking an attempt to arrest the impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol. If the security service, which puts its top priority on the president’s absolute safety, complied with the execution of the arrest warrant …

SEOUL, S. Korea | Xinhua | The Seoul Western District Court on Tuesday issued a warrant to arrest the impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol and search the presidential residence on insurrection and other charges, marking the first time in the country’s modern history that an arrest warrant was issued against a …

SEOUL | TASS |  A court issued a detention and search warrant for impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, the Corruption Investigation Office for High-Ranking Officials said. “The office confirms that the detention and search warrant for Yoon Suk Yeol was issued on the 31st in response to a …

SEOUL | Xinhua |  South Korean prosecutors said on Sunday that impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol did not comply with a summons for today and they will soon issue another order, Yonhap news agency reported. The special prosecution team handling an investigation into Yoon’s botched martial law imposition said it had …

SEOUL,  South Korea | Xinhua | With 204 in favor and 85 against, South Korea’s parliament on Saturday passed the second impeachment motion against President Yoon Suk-yeol, after the first impeachment motion was dropped a week earlier as the ruling party lawmakers boycotted it. After the motion was passed, an …

S. Korean parliament OKs resolution calling for President Yoon’s immediate arrest SEOUL | Xinhua |  South Korea’s National Assembly Tuesday passed a bill to appoint a permanent special counsel to investigate insurrection charges against President Yoon Suk-yeol, as well as a resolution calling for Yoon’s immediate arrest over his botched …