South Korea's anti-corruption agency says impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol has been detained several hours after hundreds of the agency's investigators and police officers arrived at his presidential compound to apprehend him.

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For weeks, impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has holed up inside his guarded residential compound as investigators try to figure out how to detain him.

In declaring martial law early last month, Yoon used similar language, citing the need to “eradicate pro-North Korean forces.” He later defended the move as a temporary measure to warn his opposition rivals, whom he accused of obstructing governance. Critics, however, viewed the declaration as an authoritarian overreach.

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean authorities successfully detained President Yoon Suk Yeol on Wednesday over his botched declaration of martial law, weeks after a first attempt ended in a ...

His arrest, the first ever for an incumbent South Korean president, is the latest head-spinning development for one of Asia's most vibrant democracies even though the country has a history of prosecut

Thousands of South Koreans have gathered for rival demonstrations in the capital Seoul, either demanding the arrest of President Yoon Suk Yeol over his failed December 3 martial law decree or calling for his impeachment to be declared invalid.

SEOUL (Reuters) - Yoon Suk Yeol became the first incumbent South ... decades-long diplomatic row with neighbouring Japan and join Tokyo in a three-way security cooperation with the United States ...

Yoon, who was apprehended on Wednesday in a massive law enforcement operation at his residence, faces potential rebellion charges.

After lawyers of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol argued that his arrest on January 15 was unlawful, a photo spread in social media posts falsely claiming it showed a search warrant used to illegally detain him rather than an arrest warrant.

Over 3,000 police came to bring in Yoon for questioning after a much smaller initial attempt was blocked by presidential security.