{"id":68541,"date":"2024-12-27T11:20:50","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T02:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/27\/south-korea-president-yoon-suk-yeol-impeachment-trial-president-martial-law"},"modified":"2024-12-27T11:20:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T02:20:50","slug":"yoon-suk-yeol-impeachment-court-hearings-to-begin-in-south-korea-over-presidents-martial-law-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68541","title":{"rendered":"Yoon Suk Yeol impeachment: court hearings to begin in South Korea over president\u2019s martial law crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yoon\u2019s legal team will attend the first hearing in impeachment review on Friday, the same day that the acting president also faces an impeachment vote<\/p>\n<p>South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol\u2019s legal team are set to attend court on Friday as the constitutional court begins <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/16\/south-korea-han-dong-hoon-resignation-impeachment-yoon-suk-yeol\">hearings into his impeachment<\/a> by parliament over his short-lived imposition of martial law,<\/p>\n<p>The court has 180 days to decide whether to reinstate Yoon or remove him. In the latter scenario, a new presidential election would be held within 60 days.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/27\/south-korea-president-yoon-suk-yeol-impeachment-trial-president-martial-law\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yoon\u2019s legal team will attend the first hearing in impeachment review on Friday, the same day that the acting president also faces an impeachment voteSouth Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol\u2019s legal team are set to attend court on Friday as the constitutio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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-68541","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\/68541","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68542,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68541\/revisions\/68542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}