Tag Archives: Yoon Suk Yeol

SEOUL, S. Korea | Xinhua | South Korea’s constitutional court on Friday upheld a motion by the National Assembly to impeach the country’s president Yoon Suk-yeol over his short-lived martial law imposition. The conservative leader officially lost all presidential power, becoming the country’s second sitting president to be forcibly removed …

  SEOUL | Xinhua |  South Korea’s Constitutional Court on Friday removed President Yoon Suk-yeol from office by upholding his impeachment by the National Assembly. The conservative leader became the country’s second sitting president to be forcibly removed from power following former President Park Geun-hye’s ouster through impeachment in 2017. …

SEOUL, South Korea | Xinhua | South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol was released Saturday as the prosecution decided not to appeal against a court’s release approval. Yoon got off a black vehicle and walked out of the Seoul Detention Center in Uiwang, about 20 km south of Seoul, waving hands …

SEOUL | Xinhua | South Korea’s prosecution indicted arrested President Yoon Suk-yeol on an insurrection charge, multiple media outlets reported on Sunday. Yoon was put on trial in custody as the suspected ringleader of insurrection, becoming the country’s first incumbent president to be formally arrested and indicted. Yoon was accused …

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 …