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Impeachment trial of South Korea's Yoon adjourned after he does not attend

The Constitutional Court must decide within 180 days whether to remove Yoon Suk Yeol from office or restore his presidential powers.
The impeachment trial of President Yoon Suk Yeol was adjourned after he did not attend the first hearing.
Yoon's attempted power grab on 3 December caused a significant political crisis in South Korea.
Yoon faces a criminal investigation for alleged insurrection, with authorities seeking an arrest warrant.

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“Yun is an enemy of the Constitution” “Impeached to take over the regime”... 200-minute constitutional book workshop

Yun impeaches the enemy of the Constitution to take over the regime... The second public argument was held on the 16th at 2:00 p.m., at the Constitutional Court's grand judgment against President Yoon Suk-yul, an attempt to block the National Assembly's 200-minute constitutional blockade and the impeachment of President Yoon Seok-yul, who exercised emergency powers in accordance with the national constitution. After 4 minutes due to President Yo…

1 month ago

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The Straits Times

Yoon’s lawyers, National Assembly wrangle over legitimacy of martial law decree at second hearing

The South Korean President's legal team contested the legality of the impeachment process itself.

1 month ago·Singapore

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ABC Australia

After a game of hide and seek, South Korea's president emerges defiant

After a weeks-long game of hide and seek, South Korea's president Yoon Suk Yeol has finally emerged from the shadows. The saga has exposed the nation's political division.

1 month ago·Australia

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美国之音

South Korea's Constitutional Court postpones impeachment trial to Thursday due to Yoon Seok-yeol's absence

A few minutes after South Korea's Constitutional Court opened the impeachment case of suspended South Korean President Yoon Seok-yeol on Tuesday (January 14), it announced that the trial would be postponed due to Yoon's absence.

1 month ago

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Sueddeutsche Zeitung

South Korea: Interim President Choi Sang-mok brings calm to chaos

Economic bureaucrat Choi Sang-mok is trying to lead his battered tiger state out of the crisis as interim president. Suspended President Yoon and the opposition are not making it easy for him.

1 month ago·Munich, Germany

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Washington Times

Agencies, cops, mass to arrest impeached South Korean President Yoon

Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, fortified inside his presidential compound, failed to appear for his first hearing at Seoul's Constitutional Court Tuesday, escalating a national crisis as other agencies plan to forcibly make him face charges of insurrection for his ill-fated attempt to impose martial law last month.

1 month ago·United States

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