{"id":68164,"date":"2024-12-05T13:11:15","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T04:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/05\/how-south-koreas-impeachment-process-works-after-yoon-suk-yeols-martial-law-bid"},"modified":"2024-12-06T14:24:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T05:24:17","slug":"how-south-koreas-impeachment-process-works-after-yoon-suk-yeols-martial-law-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68164","title":{"rendered":"How South Korea\u2019s impeachment process works after Yoon Suk Yeol\u2019s martial law bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Removing the president requires a parliamentary two-thirds majority, which the opposition lacks, and approval by a constitutional court that technically might not have enough judges<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s opposition parties have initiated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/04\/south-korea-martial-law-president-yoon-suk-yeol-calls-to-resign-ntwnfb\">impeachment proceedings<\/a> against the president, Yoon Suk Yeol, after his shock declaration of martial law on Tuesday night that was withdrawn within six hours after united opposition from parliament.<\/p>\n<p>The dramatic events, which saw military troops entering the National Assembly before martial law <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/03\/south-koreas-president-lifts-martial-law-in-the-face-of-united-opposition\">was repealed<\/a>, marked the most serious challenge to South Korean democracy since the 1980s. Now, with public opinion firmly behind them, opposition lawmakers are moving swiftly towards an impeachment vote.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/05\/how-south-koreas-impeachment-process-works-after-yoon-suk-yeols-martial-law-bid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Removing the president requires a parliamentary two-thirds majority, which the opposition lacks, and approval by a constitutional court that technically might not have enough judgesSouth Korea\u2019s opposition parties have initiated impeachment proceedings&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2929,"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-68164","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\/68164","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\/2929"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68164"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68188,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68164\/revisions\/68188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}