{"id":70830,"date":"2025-04-08T13:21:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T04:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/08\/south-korea-election-date-2025"},"modified":"2025-04-08T13:21:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T04:21:58","slug":"south-korea-sets-snap-election-date-after-president-yoons-removal-from-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70830","title":{"rendered":"South Korea sets snap election date after President Yoon\u2019s removal from office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elections set for 3 June after months of political turmoil triggered by Yoon Suk Yeol\u2019s shock declaration of martial law and subsequent impeachment<\/p>\n<p>South Korea will hold a presidential election on 3 June, the country\u2019s acting president said on Tuesday, after predecessor Yoon Suk Yeol was impeached and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/04\/south-korea-president-yoon-suk-yeol-impeachment-verdict-results-removal\">removed from office<\/a> over a disastrous declaration of martial law.<\/p>\n<p>The government \u201cis to set June 3 as the date for South Korea\u2019s 21st presidential election\u201d, prime minister Han Duck-soo said, adding that the day would be designated as a temporary public holiday to facilitate voting.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/08\/south-korea-election-date-2025\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elections set for 3 June after months of political turmoil triggered by Yoon Suk Yeol\u2019s shock declaration of martial law and subsequent impeachmentSouth Korea will hold a presidential election on 3 June, the country\u2019s acting president said on Tuesday, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"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":[41,222,3218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/70830","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70831,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70830\/revisions\/70831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}