{"id":52701,"date":"2025-01-21T23:25:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T23:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/s-korean-president-yoon-attends-constitutional-court-hearing-of-impeachment\/"},"modified":"2025-01-21T23:24:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T23:24:44","slug":"s-korean-president-yoon-attends-constitutional-court-hearing-of-impeachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/s-korean-president-yoon-attends-constitutional-court-hearing-of-impeachment\/","title":{"rendered":"S. Korean President Yoon attends constitutional court hearing of impeachment trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The president arrived at the court around 2:00 p.m. local time and departed roughly 100 minutes later. This marked a historic moment as the first time an impeached South Korean president attended such a hearing in person.<\/p>\n<p>When questioned during the third formal hearing about whether he had ordered military commanders to forcibly remove lawmakers opposing his martial law declaration, Yoon simply responded, \u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yoon, accused of being a key figure in an alleged insurrection, imposed martial law on December 3 last year. However, the National Assembly revoked it within hours.<\/p>\n<p>The impeachment motion, passed by the opposition-led National Assembly on December 14, suspended Yoon\u2019s presidential powers. The constitutional court now has up to 180 days to deliberate the case. <\/p>\n<p>If at least six of the court&#8217;s justices uphold the impeachment, Yoon will be permanently removed from office, prompting a presidential election within 60 days.<\/p>\n<p>Following the hearing, Yoon visited an Armed Forces hospital dedicated to high-ranking officials and their families before returning to the Seoul Detention Center.<\/p>\n<p>The next court hearings are scheduled for later this month and early February. Meanwhile, Yoon remains in detention under an extended warrant granted by a Seoul court. <\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, he attended a four-hour warrant hearing, arguing the legitimacy of his martial law declaration and defending his reputation.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-80512\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/000_36p72pd-3.jpg\" alt=\"S. Korean President Yoon has attended constitutional court hearing of impeachment trial.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol attended a constitutional court hearing on Tuesday regarding his impeachment trial, where he denied all allegations tied to his declaration of martial law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000080511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-52701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000080511,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/000_36p72pd-3.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/000_36p72pd-3.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/000_36p72pd-3.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/000_36p72pd-3.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/000_36p72pd-3.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/000_36p72pd-3.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000080511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52701"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=52701"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=52701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}