{"id":68132,"date":"2024-12-04T19:00:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T10:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/04\/who-is-yoon-suk-yeol-south-korea-president-martial-law"},"modified":"2024-12-04T19:00:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T10:00:03","slug":"who-is-yoon-suk-yeol-the-controversial-south-korean-president-who-tried-and-failed-to-impose-martial-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68132","title":{"rendered":"Who is Yoon Suk Yeol, the controversial South Korean president who tried and failed to impose martial law?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative former prosecutor has taken a hardline stance on North Korea and says he is \u2018anti-feminist\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>South Korea crisis live<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/04\/south-korea-martial-law-president-yoon-suk-yeol-calls-to-resign-ntwnfb\">Full report: Yoon faces calls to resign<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For Yoon Suk Yeol, it appears, the tables have turned.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017 the then prosecutor general led the legal action to remove then-president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/mar\/10\/south-korea-president-park-geun-hye-constitutional-court-impeachment\">Park Geun-hye<\/a> from office after she was convicted of abuse of power.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/04\/who-is-yoon-suk-yeol-south-korea-president-martial-law\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative former prosecutor has taken a hardline stance on North Korea and says he is \u2018anti-feminist\u2019South Korea crisis liveFull report: Yoon faces calls to resignFor Yoon Suk Yeol, it appears, the tables have turned.In 2017 the then prosecutor gene&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4507,"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-68132","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\/68132","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\/4507"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68160,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68132\/revisions\/68160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}