{"id":70793,"date":"2025-04-04T22:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T13:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/04\/south-koreans-celebrating-yoon-suk-yeol-impeachment-saga-is-far-from-over"},"modified":"2025-04-04T22:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T13:51:08","slug":"south-koreans-are-celebrating-yoons-impeachment-but-the-saga-is-far-from-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70793","title":{"rendered":"South Koreans are celebrating Yoon\u2019s impeachment, but the saga is far from over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whoever becomes president later this year has unenviable task of healing divisions and rebuilding trust in democratic institutions<\/p>\n<p>It had been a long and at times intolerable wait. But the South Korean constitutional court\u2019s decision on Friday to oust Yoon Suk Yeol from office may have restored the public\u2019s faith in their democracy.<\/p>\n<p>For 22 minutes, millions of South Koreans held their breath as the chief justice of the constitutional court, Moon Hyung-bae, began delivering the court\u2019s verdict on Yoon\u2019s impeachment over his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/03\/south-koreas-president-lifts-martial-law-in-the-face-of-united-opposition\">chaotic declaration of martial law<\/a> in December.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/04\/south-koreans-celebrating-yoon-suk-yeol-impeachment-saga-is-far-from-over\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoever becomes president later this year has unenviable task of healing divisions and rebuilding trust in democratic institutionsIt had been a long and at times intolerable wait. But the South Korean constitutional court\u2019s decision on Friday to oust Y&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4676,"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-70793","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\/70793","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\/4676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70794,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70793\/revisions\/70794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}