As political changes loom, South Korea's leadership crisis could affect ties with China, Japan and the US, observers say With ...

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.

A court in Seoul grants request for an arrest warrant, saying there was ‘concern’ that Yoon could ‘destroy evidence’.

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

South Korea's impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol faces arrest over martial law declaration, igniting political unrest. Discover the unfolding crisis.