South Korean police detained impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol at his residence in Seoul on Wednesday local time, ABC News confirmed.
Yoon’s detention, after a tense standoff outside the presidential residence, marks the latest chapter in a bewildering series of events since his martial law decree.
After a weeks-long game of hide and seek, South Korea's president Yoon Suk Yeol has finally emerged from the shadows. The saga has exposed the nation's political division.
A Seoul court issued a warrant Saturday to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol for an extended period over his botched martial law bid last month in the first such detention of a sitting South Korean president.
SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea's anti-corruption agency said on Friday it would ask a Seoul court to extend the detention of arrested President Yoon Suk Yeol as the leader again refused to be questioned by investigators.
SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea's arrested President Yoon Suk Yeol will not attend a new round of questioning by investigators on Friday, his lawyer said, as authorities face an imminent deadline to obtain a warrant to extend his detention or release the embattled leader.
With the fate of suspended South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol hanging in the balance, the country has also been left facing an uncertain future as it battles through the resulting political turmoil.
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been detained after a massive law enforcement operation at the presidential compound that ended a weeks-long stand-off between his bodyguards and the country’s
At pro-Yoon Suk Yeol rallies in Seoul, some placards have recently surfaced bearing catchphrases like “Stop the steal” which are used by Donald Trump’s supporters.
A South Korean crypto exchange operator was jailed for 4 years for “leaking military secrets” to Pyongyang hackers in exchange for Bitcoin.
That’s why Americans find it so mind-boggling that Yoon would have threatened Korea’s constitutional order with his unjustified declaration of martial law. American perspectiv