{"id":68306,"date":"2024-12-14T19:25:43","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T10:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/14\/south-korea-president-yoon-suk-yeol-impeachment-what-happens-next"},"modified":"2024-12-14T19:25:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T10:25:43","slug":"what-happens-next-after-vote-to-impeach-south-koreas-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68306","title":{"rendered":"What happens next after vote to impeach South Korea\u2019s president?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attention now turns to constitutional court, which must decide whether to remove Yoon from office or reject impeachment <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2024\/dec\/14\/south-korea-impeachment-vote-yoon-suk-yeol\">South Korea impeachment live<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The vote to impeach South Korea\u2019s president, Yoon Suk Yeol, was a dramatic fall from grace for the conservative leader, who must now suffer the ignominy of being forced from office well before the end of his five-year term.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/14\/south-korean-parliament-votes-to-impeach-president\">the vote on Saturday in the national assembly<\/a>, where the impeachment motion just exceeded the required two-thirds majority after 12 members of Yoon\u2019s party sided with the opposition, does not mean his presidency has ended.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/14\/south-korea-president-yoon-suk-yeol-impeachment-what-happens-next\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attention now turns to constitutional court, which must decide whether to remove Yoon from office or reject impeachment South Korea impeachment liveThe vote to impeach South Korea\u2019s president, Yoon Suk Yeol, was a dramatic fall from grace for the conse&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3060,"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-68306","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\/68306","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\/3060"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68315,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68306\/revisions\/68315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}