The development, which followed a failed arrest attempt earlier in January, deepens the fallout from his short-lived declaration of martial law last month.

Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was arrested on Wednesday, an anti-graft agency investigating his Dec. 3 martial law attempt said in a statement.

Seoul: South Korea has been witnessing a political turmoil for the past many weeks that escalated after the then-President of the country, Yoon Suk Yeol imposed martial law, only to recall it after mass opposition and protests;

Hundreds of police officers and protesters engaged in a second standoff in Seoul, as investigators attempted to arrest impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol.

More forces are expected to join the operation to take Yoon Suk Yeol in for questioning after the last attempt was foiled by his large security team.

South Korean authorities investigating impeached President Yoon Seok Yeol were at his official residence on Wednesday to execute an arrest warrant over insurrection accusations related to his Dec. 3 martial law declaration.

South Korea's suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol has been arrested in the capital Seoul over the brief imposition of martial law in early December. Police officers and investigators from the anti-corruption agency (CIO) took Yoon to his residence on Wednesday morning to bring him to the public prosecutor's office,

Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is prepared to be questioned by investigators on Wednesday if authorities who had come to arrest him pull back from his residence, said Seok Dong-hyeon,