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Yoon Suk Yeol [b] (Korean: 윤석열; born 18 December 1960) is a South Korean lawyer and politician who has served as the 13th president of South Korea since 2022. A member of the People Power Party (PPP), Yoon previously served as the prosecutor general of South Korea from 2019 to 2021 under his presidential predecessor, Moon Jae-in.
South Korea’s parliament voted to impeach president Yoon Suk Yeol as authorities investigated allegations of rebellion over his controversial 3 December martial law decree that caused huge ...
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife Kim Keon Hee arrive for a celebration to mark 76th anniversary of Korea Armed Forces Day in Seongnam on October 1, 2024. - Kim Hong-Ji/Pool/AFP ...
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has survived an impeachment motion in the opposition-led parliament after members of his party boycotted the vote. Only 195 votes were cast, below the ...
Yoon Suk Yeol in 2022. Only one Korean president, Park Geun-hye, has been removed from office through impeachment, which occurred in 2017. [2] Roh Moo-hyun was impeached in 2004 on accusations of illegal electioneering, incompetence, and economic mismanagement.
On 3 December 2024, at 22:27 Korea Standard Time (KST), Yoon Suk Yeol, the president of South Korea, declared martial law during a televised address. In his declaration, Yoon accused the Democratic Party (DPK), which has a majority in the National Assembly, of conducting "anti-state activities" and collaborating with "North Korean communists" to destroy the country, thereby creating a ...
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol faces the greatest threat to his brief but chequered political career, with his fate in the hands of judges after some of his allies turned from him and voted ...
[3] [6] Yoon Suk Yeol assumed office on 10 May 2022 and was impeached by the National Assembly on 14 December 2024. [7] His powers will remain suspended until a Constitutional Court decision upholds or rejects the impeachment; until then, the prime minister served as acting president.