A standoff between the impeached president’s security team and officials seeking to detain him was echoed on the streets outside the presidential residence.
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Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, in a message to conservative supporters, vowed to 'fight to the end' against 'anti-state forces.'
Blocked by bodyguards, officials retreated after several hours without serving a court warrant to hold President Yoon Suk Yeol for questioning on insurrection charges.
Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol avoided an arrest attempt Friday after an hourslong standoff between anti-corruption investigators and presidential security.
Yoon Suk Yeol’s bodyguards thwarted investigators in another tense showdown resulting from his short-lived martial law decree.
Thousands of rival South Korean protesters rallied in the capital Saturday, a day after a failed attempt to arrest suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol for imposing a short-lived martial law decree that led to his impeachment.
South Korean investigators failed to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol after an hours-long standoff with his security forces.
It was unclear when and how police could make the arrest and whether the presidential security service, which has blocked access by investigators with a search warrant to Yoon's office and official residence,
Noah Centineo ‘s Netflix spy series “ The Recruit ” is headed to Seoul in its second season. The show’s Season 2 trailer — fittingly soundtracked to Green Day’s “American Idiot” — sees CIA lawyer Owen Hendricks (Centineo) embarking on a new thrilling adventure in South Korea alongside “Past Lives” actor Teo Yoo.