{"id":68113,"date":"2024-12-04T13:08:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T04:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2024\/dec\/04\/south-korea-crisis-live-blog-martial-law-yoon-suk-yeol-impeachment-calls"},"modified":"2024-12-04T18:51:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T09:51:12","slug":"south-korea-crisis-live-president-yoon-faces-impeachment-calls-amid-martial-law-outcry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68113","title":{"rendered":"South Korea crisis live: motion to impeach President Yoon submitted, say opposition parties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition Democratic party lawmakers have called on Yoon Suk Yeol to resign immediately or they would seek his impeachment<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/04\/south-korea-martial-law-president-yoon-suk-yeol-calls-to-resign-ntwnfb\">Yoon Suk Yeol faces calls to resign after martial law shock<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/04\/south-korea-martial-law-what-comes-next-president-yoon-suk-yeol\">Explainer: what happened and what comes next?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s finance ministry has said it stood ready to deploy \u201cunlimited\u201d liquidity into financial markets after President Yoon Suk Yeol lifted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/south-korea-president-yoon-declares-martial-law-2024-12-03\/\">martial law declaration<\/a> he imposed overnight that pushed the won to multi-year lows, Reuters reports.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came after finance minister Choi Sang-mok and Bank of Korea governor Rhee Chang-yong held emergency talks overnight, and as the central bank board abruptly met to approve rescue measures for the local credit market.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2024\/dec\/04\/south-korea-crisis-live-blog-martial-law-yoon-suk-yeol-impeachment-calls\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition Democratic party lawmakers have called on Yoon Suk Yeol to resign immediately or they would seek his impeachmentYoon Suk Yeol faces calls to resign after martial law shockExplainer: what happened and what comes next?South Korea\u2019s finance min&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":479,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/479"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68113"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68146,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68113\/revisions\/68146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}