Yoon's lawyers have said his arrest was "illegal" because the CIO, as an anti-corruption agency, has no power ... Korea has been gripped by political turmoil since Yoon's stunning but short-lived ...

Officials quickly became locked in another power struggle with ... for his effort to institute martial law and has been banned from leaving the country. Sitting South Korean presidents have ...

The U.S. secretary of state aimed to show that his country stood by South Korea ... s full-scale invasion. The shells go to Ukraine via the U.S. military. When Mr. Yoon declared martial law ...

Citizen protests have become more common since the Dec. 3 martial law ... Second, Korean society traditionally has strong patriarchal values. Gender roles and power structures within the family ...

Since his impeachment in December, Yoon has resisted attempts to investigate and arrest him for alleged insurrection and abuse of power ... and North Korea to justify his martial law declaration.

Martial law justification ... measure against potential large-scale unrest orchestrated by the DPK and affiliated groups. “Given the history of the DPK, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions ...

By Katie Stallard For more than a month, South Korea’s ... using ladders to scale the barricades and enter the compound to detain Yoon. A large crowd of the president’s supporters, including dozens of ...

Yoon Suk Yeol has become South Korea's first sitting president to be ... Yoon, 64, is being investigated on charges of insurrection for a failed martial law order on 3 December that plunged ...