South Korea's anti-corruption agency requested on Thursday that prosecutors indict President Yoon Suk Yeol for committing insurrection and abuse of power over his short-lived declaration of martial law after transferring his case to the prosecutors' office.
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South Korea’s impeached president denied that he had ordered the military to drag out lawmakers at the National Assembly to prevent them from voting down his martial law decree last month, as he appeared for the first time at a hearing of the Constitutional Court that is to determine his fate.
South Korea’s impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol, has been formally arrested, days after being apprehended at his presidential compound in Seoul.
The Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials in South Korea is handing off the case against impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol to prosecutors. Yoon is accused of leading an insurrection by declaring martial law,
Differing opinions on Yoon’s impeachment are driving kin apart. But a few parents and children are finding more common ground.
Upbit and Bithumb have agreed to compensate their users with $2.5 million. The exchanges agreed to the compensation because of technical failures during the December martial law declaration.
Political turmoil over impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol, who failed a martial law attempt in December, and sluggish domestic demand weighed on Asia’s fourth-largest economy.
SOUTH Korea’s economy continued to sputter last quarter, after President Yoon Suk-yeol’s short-lived declaration of martial law battered consumer confidence at a time when export growth is slowing. Read more at The Business Times.
Upbit and Bithumb, South Korea’s biggest crypto exchanges, to pay customers $2.4m in compensation for outages during Dec 3 martial law chaos.
South Korea’s impeached president, Yoon Suk-yeol, languishing in jail following his short-lived attempt to impose martial law, can take comfort in the resurgence of his conservative adherents in the wake of the leftist drive to have him ousted, imprisoned, and possibly executed.
South Korea’s impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol, has been formally arrested, days after being apprehended at his presidential compound in Seoul.