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Presidential elections were held in South Korea on 9 March 2022. Under the South Korean constitution, presidents are restricted to a single five-year term, meaning that incumbent president Moon Jae-in was ineligible to run for a second term.
The current president, Yoon Suk Yeol, a former prosecutor general and member of the conservative People Power Party, assumed office on 10 May 2022, [3] [4] after defeating the Democratic Party's nominee Lee Jae-myung with a narrow 48.5% plurality in the 2022 South Korean presidential election. [5]
The president must be a South Korean citizen, at least 40 years old, who has lived in South Korea for 5 years. [2] The term was previously set at four years during the First Republic from 1948 to 1960, including a two-term limit that was repealed in 1954.
South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol told judges he was a “firm believer of liberal democracy” as he appeared for his ... a career prosecutor before his 2022 election as president, said after ...
Yoon Suk Yeol has become South Korea’s first incumbent president to be arrested after he was charged with insurrection for declaring martial law last month and thrusting the country into ...
Yoon squeaked out a victory in the tightest presidential election in South Korean history in 2022 on a wave of discontent over economic policy, scandals and gender wars, reshaping the political ...
Yoon Suk Yeol (Korean: 윤석열; [b] born 18 December 1960) is a South Korean politician and prosecutor who has served as the 13th president of South Korea since 2022. Following his impeachment on 14 December 2024, his powers are currently suspended. Yoon was born in Seoul and earned two degrees from Seoul National University.
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has survived an impeachment motion in the opposition-led parliament after members of his party boycotted the ... who narrowly won the presidency in 2022, has ...