Yoon Suk Yeol is a South Korean politician who served as the 13th president of South Korea from 2022 until his removal from office in 2025. A member of the People Power Party during his presidency, he
Official portrait, 2022
Yoon Suk Yeol leaving the People Power Party (PPP) headquarters shortly after joining the party on 30 July 2021
Yoon with then-Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly Chung Jin-suk in November 2021
Yoon takes the presidential oath of office outside of the National Assembly on 10 May 2022.
On 3 December 2024, at 22:27 Korea Standard Time, Yoon Suk Yeol, the then-president of South Korea, attempted a self-coup by declaring martial law during a televised address. In the address, he accuse
Yoon Suk Yeol
…He received mostly low approval ratings as president and had been described as a lame duck. On 3 December 2024, Yoon attempted a self-coup by declaring martial law, the first time it had been declared in South Korea since the military dictatorship of Chun Doo-hwan in 1980. He accused members of the National Assembly…
Lee Jae Myung at the emergency rally held at the National Assembly on 4 December, with Cho Kuk to his left
CCTV images of soldiers in the National Election Commission headquarters server room.