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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 18 January 2025. President of South Korea since 2022 In this Korean name, the family name is Yoon. His Excellency Yoon Suk Yeol 윤석열 Official portrait, 2022 13th President of South Korea Incumbent Assumed office 10 May 2022 [a] Prime Minister Choo Kyung-ho (acting) Han Duck-soo Choi Sang-mok (acting ...
Yoon Suk Yeol in 2022. South Korea has been governed as a presidential democracy under the 1987 constitution, which provides for a strong independent executive.As a result, presidents can only be removed by a difficult impeachment process, rather than a simple vote of no confidence.
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 has been arrested for questioning, according to the country’s anti corruption agency, in the latest chapter of a weekslong political saga that began with the ...
South Korea’s president Yoon Suk Yeol has finally been arrested and taken in for questioning, ending a stand-off lasting more than a month after his martial law declaration threw the country ...
South Korean authorities have arrested President Yoon Suk Yeol, who faces charges of insurrection following an attempt to impose martial law. Yoon is now at the Corruption Investigation Office ...
The Korea Times drew comparisons between Yoon's impeachment and that of President Park Geun-hye in 2017, attributing Yoon's survival of the first impeachment attempt to the PPP's fear that it would suffer a crushing defeat in the snap presidential election, similar to what happened to the Saenuri Party after Park was removed from the presidency.
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 ...