{"id":68945,"date":"2025-01-15T15:43:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T06:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/15\/yoon-suk-yeol-arrest-south-korea-president-impeachment-police-presence-seoul"},"modified":"2025-01-15T15:43:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T06:43:05","slug":"ladders-noodle-stations-and-k-pop-how-the-arrest-of-south-koreas-president-unfolded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68945","title":{"rendered":"Ladders, noodle stations and K-pop: how the arrest of South Korea\u2019s president unfolded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police came better prepared than for their first attempt two weeks ago while supporters on both sides of the political divide came out to protest <\/p>\n<p>By 4.30am, the streets around Yoon Suk Yeol\u2019s hilltop residence felt like rush hour, packed with police and protesters despite the early hour.<\/p>\n<p>Roads were completely sealed off and thousands of officers were in position on the freezing winter morning, while hundreds of pro-Yoon supporters chanted aggressively while clutching red light sticks and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/03\/why-yoon-suk-yeol-supporters-us-flags-south-korea-ntwnfb\">American flags<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/15\/yoon-suk-yeol-arrest-south-korea-president-impeachment-police-presence-seoul\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police came better prepared than for their first attempt two weeks ago while supporters on both sides of the political divide came out to protest By 4.30am, the streets around Yoon Suk Yeol\u2019s hilltop residence felt like rush hour, packed with police an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2929,"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":[222,3218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-korea","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\/68945","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\/2929"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68946,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68945\/revisions\/68946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}