Yeol barricaded himself in his official residence in Seoul for weeks under the protection of bodyguards, even managing to thwart an initial police operation.
The leader was finally detained in January 2025 during a violent operation, which lasted several hours.
He became the first sitting South Korean President to be detained.
On December 3, 2024, Yoon announced on television the imposition of martial law, sending troops to parliament.
The conservative reversed the decision hours later, after a sufficient number of deputies managed to enter the parliamentary building and approve the suspension of the decree.
Yoon ended up being removed from office by the Constitutional Court last April, which triggered presidential elections, which gave victory to Lee Jae-myung, the left-wing opposition candidate.
Yoon justified martial law, an unprecedented measure in South Korea since the military dictatorships of the 1980s, by claiming that the parliament, controlled by the opposition, was blocking the state budget.
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