{"id":68928,"date":"2025-01-15T08:56:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T23:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/14\/south-koreas-yoon-suk-yeol-faces-fresh-arrest-attempt"},"modified":"2025-01-16T00:56:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T15:56:26","slug":"police-seeking-to-arrest-south-koreas-yoon-suk-yeol-clash-with-supporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68928","title":{"rendered":"South Korea\u2019s Yoon Suk Yeol arrested and questioned for hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Impeached president questioned over martial law declaration last month after standoff at his residence<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/15\/yoon-suk-yeol-arrest-seoul-south-korea-president-impeachment-trial\">Explainer: After the arrest of Yoon Suk Yeol, what happens next?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol, was arrested and questioned for hours over his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/07\/south-korean-president-apologises-for-martial-law-attempt-as-impeachment-vote-looms\">ill-fated declaration of martial law<\/a> last month, handing himself in after an early-morning standoff outside his official residence in Seoul.<\/p>\n<p>His detention on Wednesday makes him the first sitting president in the country\u2019s history to be arrested.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/14\/south-koreas-yoon-suk-yeol-faces-fresh-arrest-attempt\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Impeached president questioned over martial law declaration last month after standoff at his residenceExplainer: After the arrest of Yoon Suk Yeol, what happens next?South Korea\u2019s impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol, was arrested and questioned for hour&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4506,"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":[41,222,42,3218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-south-korea","category-world-news","category-yoon-suk-yeol"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68928","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\/4506"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68928"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68951,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68928\/revisions\/68951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}