Yoon, who was impeached and suspended from office in December, is the first sitting South Korean president to be arrested.

Lawyers for South Korea’s impeached president say he will appear at a hearing in a Seoul court to oppose a formal arrest over last month’s imposition of martial law.

President Yoon Suk Yeol, a former prosecutor, used to put people in jail. Now, after his formal arrest, he himself is in a cell, alone.

Han Youngsoo chronicled the postwar transformation of mid-century Seoul, complicating popular depictions of that era as one ...

A South Korean court granted on Sunday an extension of President Yoon Suk Yeol’s detention, saying there was “concern” that Yoon could “destroy evidence” in a criminal probe related to his short-lived ...