{"id":68296,"date":"2024-12-14T21:15:28","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T12:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2024\/dec\/14\/south-korea-impeachment-vote-yoon-suk-yeol"},"modified":"2024-12-14T23:27:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T14:27:46","slug":"south-korea-impeachment-live-jubilation-in-seoul-as-president-yoon-suk-yeol-impeached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68296","title":{"rendered":"South Korea impeachment: jubilation in Seoul as president Yoon Suk Yeol impeached \u2013  as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This live blog is now closed, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/14\/south-korean-parliament-votes-to-impeach-president\">read more on this story here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Voting is now beginning. The process has been explained to lawmakers. We\u2019ll bring you the result as soon as we get it.<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of people have braved the bitter cold and poured onto the streets of the capital, Seoul, every night for the past two weeks, calling for Yoon\u2019s ouster and arrest. They shouted slogans, sang, danced and waved K-pop light sticks. Smaller groups of Yoon\u2019s conservative supporters \u2014 still in the thousands \u2014 have also been rallying in Seoul, denouncing attempts to impeach the president. Both rallies have largely been peaceful.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cMany people are using idol light sticks even though they are expensive. I think it\u2019s become a really great culture because people are bringing their most precious and brightest possessions to express their will and opinions,\u201d said Hong Gayeong, a 29-year-old protester, near the National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2024\/dec\/14\/south-korea-impeachment-vote-yoon-suk-yeol\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This live blog is now closed, you can read more on this story hereVoting is now beginning. The process has been explained to lawmakers. We\u2019ll bring you the result as soon as we get it.Tens of thousands of people have braved the bitter cold and poured o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4520,"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-68296","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\/68296","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\/4520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68313,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68296\/revisions\/68313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}