Second martial law impeachment vote looms for President Yoon

South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol delivering an address at the Presidential Office in Seoul. South Korea's embattled President Yoon Suk Yeol stopped short of resigning on December 7 over his declaration of martial law, with a vote to impeach him hours away and mass street protests planned in Seoul. [AFP]

South Korea's opposition leader warned his ruling party colleagues on Friday that "history will remember" if they do not back the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol, with just over 24 hours until a vote to remove him from office.

Yoon's short-lived imposition of South Korea's first martial law in over four decades plunged the country's vibrant and combative democracy into some of its worst political turmoil in years.