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South Korea’s acting leader accepts resignation of presidential security chief
South Korean police has questioned the chief of the presidential security service as the two agencies clashed over attempts to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol.
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's security chief resigns
South Korea's Presidential Security Service chief resigned Friday and acting President Choi Sang-mok accepted it. President Yoon Suk Yeol remains in his fortified residence as law enforcement seeks to arrest him.
‘Stop the Steal’ in South Korea? Why MAGA-like hats and slogans are part of President Yoon’s impeachment drama
Crowds of people wrapped up against the bitter January cold clutch signs emblazoned with the slogan “Stop the Steal,” wave US flags, and don red MAGA-like hats.
What to know about the siege outside South Korea’s presidential compound
For weeks, impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol has remained in his compound and refused to respond to detention and search warrants.
As South Korea's Impeached President Yoon Awaits Fate, His Party Sees Signs of Revival
He said that revival comes from both die-hard Yoon supporters, who back his reasons for declaring martial law including unsubstantiated allegations of election fraud, and those wh
South Korea's far right borrows from Trump's playbook to bolster impeached Yoon
The president's ultraconservative supporters believe that the country has been overrun by North Korea sympathizers conspiring to destroy South Korea's freedoms.
South Korea presidential security chief warns against violent attempt to arrest Yoon
By Hyunjoo Jin and Jack Kim Seoul (Reuters) -South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's security chief said on Friday the impeached leader, who faces arrest over a criminal probe into his Dec. 3 martial law bid,
Lawyer for South Korea's Yoon Says Impeached President in Official Residence
Yoon Kab-keun, one of the lawyers representing South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol, said on Thursday that Yoon was staying in his official residence. The lawyer made the comment in a briefing to reporters following recent speculation over the suspended president's whereabouts.
South Korean Opposition’s Support Slides as Yoon Defies Arrest
The support rate for South Korea’s main opposition that has been leading the impeachment campaign against President Yoon Suk Yeol dived, as investigators struggle to arrest the embattled leader.
South Korea's Yoon to accept court decision even if it ends presidency, lawyer says
Seok Dong-hyeon, another lawyer advising Yoon, said Yoon viewed the attempts to arrest him as politically motivated and aimed at humiliating him by publicly displaying him in hand
Supporters of impeached South Korean president Yoon continue to pledge to protect him
Hundreds of supporters gathered once again outside the president's official residence, pledging to protect him from South Korea's national anti-corruption agency.

Bong Joon-ho, Mickey 17 and South Korea

How Yoon's martial law bid complicates US-South Korea ties
In declaring martial law early last month, Yoon used similar language, citing the need to “eradicate pro-North Korean forces.
Is South Korea's young democracy under threat?
Meanwhile, criminal investigators looking into Yoon's alleged insurrection are said to be "mulling their next move", ...
How Bodyguards Are Keeping South Korea’s Leader From Detention
President Yoon Suk Yeol’s security service stopped an effort to detain him on insurrection charges and has vowed to do so ...
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A standoff between rival government forces outside the presidential compound in South Korea is a startling development, even for observers used to the country’s famously rough and tumble ...
Two weeks in, South Korea's latest leader Choi walks political tightrope
Two weeks after becoming South Korea's second acting president, Choi Sang-mok faces not only the task of steering a shaky ...
In South Korea, Blinken Affirms Alliance Amid Challenges Facing Democracies
The U.S. secretary of state aimed to show that his country stood by South Korea as it grapples with a political crisis, and ...