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South Korea's Constitutional Court removed impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol from office on Friday, ending his tumultuous presidency four months after he threw South Korean politics into turmoil with...
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Yoon's short-lived declaration of martial law in December saw violent protests and plunged the country into political turmoil.
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South Korea's president removed from office over ill-fated declaration of martial law
South Korea's Constitutional Court removed impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol from office on Friday, ending his tumultuous presidency and setting up an election to replace him.
Jubilation and despair as South Korea president removed from office
The constitutional court unanimously voted to uphold Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment over his short-lived declaration of martial law.
A look at the events leading up to Constitutional Court’s ruling on South Korean President Yoon
Following months of deliberation, South Korea’s Constitutional Court will decide this week whether to uphold the legislature’s impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol over his brief imposition of martial law in December and formally remove him from office or restore his presidential powers.
South Koreans react as president Yoon is removed from office
The constitutional court voted unanimously to uphold president Yoon's impeachment following his short-lived declaration of martial law.
South Korea tightens security ahead of Yoon impeachment ruling
South Korea is bracing for a potentially violent public reaction to a Constitutional Court ruling on Friday on whether to remove impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol from office or reinstate him amid the country's worst political crisis in decades.
South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol removed from office over declaration of martial law
South Korea’s Constitutional Court removed impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol from office on Friday, four months after he threw South Korean politics into turmoil by declaring martial law and sending troops to parliament in an ill-fated effort to break through legislative gridlock.
Man caring for ancestors’ grave may have ignited huge South Korea wildfire, police say
A South Korean man tending a family grave is suspected of sparking one of the ‘unprecedented’ wildfires that ravaged the southeastern part of the country last week, the National Police Agency said Monday.
South Korea police plan to question man suspected of starting wildfire while clearing grass at family grave
The 56-year-old man is suspected of starting at least one of the wildfires that recently devastated the country’s southern regions
PHOTO COLLECTION: South Korea Martial Law
South Korean Buddhist monks and members of civic groups prostrate in every three steps in a march towards the Constitutional Court as they demand the dismissal of the impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol,
Man tending grave probed for starting South Korea fires
A 56-year-old man is being investigated in South Korea on suspicion of starting a deadly wildfire that killed 30 people. The man, who has not been named, was performing an ancestral rite by a family grave on a hill in Uiseong county, North Gyeongsang province, at the time.
Opposition Chief Leads Candidates Eyeing South Korean Presidency
The race for South Korea’s next president has kicked off after the Constitutional Court upheld Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment, permanently removing him from office. A handful of candidates will jostle for the country’s highest position ahead of an election,
South Korean wildfires fully contained; police to question man suspected of starting blaze
South Korean firefighters were able to fully contain the wildfires that have ravaged the southeastern part of the country and left 30 dead, officials said, while authorities began a joint investigation into the cause.
Accusations Fly in South Korean Dating Scandal After Actress’s Suicide
The death of the actress Kim Sae-ron has plunged her former boyfriend, the superstar actor Kim Soo-hyun, into the biggest crisis of his career.
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