{"id":68335,"date":"2024-12-16T11:19:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T02:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/16\/south-korea-han-dong-hoon-resignation-impeachment-yoon-suk-yeol"},"modified":"2024-12-16T16:48:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T07:48:04","slug":"south-korea-ruling-party-leader-steps-down-after-backing-impeachment-of-president-yoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68335","title":{"rendered":"South Korea court begins review of president\u2019s impeachment over martial law bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Yoon Suk Yeol and senior officials face potential charges of insurrection and abuse of authority<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s constitutional court has begun reviewing the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol over his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/03\/south-korean-president-declares-emergency-martial-law\">attempt to impose martial law on 3 December<\/a>, a process that will decide if he is removed from office.<\/p>\n<p>The court will hold the first public hearing on 27 December, spokesperson Lee Jean told a news conference, after the court\u2019s six justices met on Saturday to discuss plans for reviewing the impeachment by the opposition-controlled parliament.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/16\/south-korea-han-dong-hoon-resignation-impeachment-yoon-suk-yeol\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Yoon Suk Yeol and senior officials face potential charges of insurrection and abuse of authoritySouth Korea\u2019s constitutional court has begun reviewing the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol over his attempt to impose martial law on 3 Dece&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4524,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-south-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68335","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\/4524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68335"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68355,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68335\/revisions\/68355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}