South Korea’s impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol, was formally arrested early Sunday, days after being apprehended at his presidential compound in Seoul. He faces possible imprisonment over his ...

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean authorities arrested impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol on Wednesday over insurrection accusations related to his Dec. 3 martial law declaration, investigators said.

including former president Park Geun-hye and Samsung Electronics chairman Jay Y. Lee, have been detained. Since lawmakers voted to stand Yoon down after his short-lived declaration of martial law ...

The Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) finally succeeded in detaining South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol ... to block then-President Park Geun-hye from being ...

Democratic Party of Korea floor leader Rep. Park Chan-dae, meanwhile, said Yoon's detention is "the first step toward the restoration of constitutional order, democracy and the realization of the ...

South Korean authorities on Wednesday arrested impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over insurrection accusations related to his brief declaration of martial law on December 3, investigators said.

Yoon shot to national fame in 2016 when, as the chief investigator probing then-President Park Geun-hye for corruption, he was asked if he was out for revenge and responded that prosecutors were ...

Park Chan-dae, floor leader of the liberal opposition Democratic Party, which drove the legislative campaign to impeach Yoon, said that Yoon’s detention was the “first step toward restoring ...

If the court decides to remove Yoon from office, a presidential election must be held within 60 days. Last month, South Korean lawmakers impeached the country's acting president, Han Duck-soo ...

Reporter Shin Ji-won reports. [Reporter] President Park Yoon Suk Yeol, who is suspected of being a "civil war mob," will be investigated in a separate space in the 5th building of the government ...

South Korean authorities detained impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol early Wednesday, the country’s anti-corruption agency announced, following a tense, five-hour standoff at his heavily guarded ...

Yoon is under investigation related to his declaration ... The country's head of presidential security service, Park Jong-joon, then resigned after facing backlash when his crews were accused ...