Lawyers for South Korea’s impeached president say he will appear at a hearing in a Seoul court to oppose a formal arrest over last month’s imposition of martial law.

Yoon, who was impeached and suspended from office in December, is the first sitting South Korean president to be arrested.

South Korea’s impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol, was sent to a detention center near Seoul on Wednesday night, after being ...

Yoon Suk Yeol is expected to argue there is no need for him to be in custody during an investigation into his imposition of ...

Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol spoke for 40 minutes in court, in a hearing on whether to set him free, or ...

Impeached South Korean President appears in court to testify on extended arrest and defends the December martial law ...

South Korean court orders formal arrest of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over his short-lived martial law decree.

A South Korean court extended the detention of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol early Sunday, a ruling that gives prosecutors time to formalise a criminal indictment for insurrection, a charge for ...

President Yoon Suk Yeol, a former prosecutor, used to put people in jail. Now, after his formal arrest, he himself is in a cell, alone.

With the court’s approval of the warrant, investigators can now hold him for up to 20 days, including the time he has already ...