Police used ladders to scale barricades and enter the president’s residential compound as they try to detain Yoon Suk Yeol, who is facing insurrection charges.

South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol attended a hearing at a Seoul court Saturday to oppose his potential formal arrest over his short-lived martial law decree last month, his lawyers said.

Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol arrived at court for the first time Saturday to attend a hearing that will decide whether to extend his

Yoon and his ruling party supporters remain defiant against the insurrection charges. He is South Korea's first sitting president to be detained.

South Korea’s impeached president has received a pay rise despite being holed up inside a guarded compound after his botched martial law declaration.

Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was detained by police at his residence Wednesday morning for questioning over his short-lived martial law attempt.

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

Legal representatives of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol said Saturday that Yoon has decided to attend a court hearing for an arrest warrant against him to explain the legitimacy of his short-lived martial law decree.

Lawyers for South Korea’s impeached president say he will appear at a hearing in a Seoul court to oppose a formal arrest over last month’s imposition of martial law

Yoon Suk Yeol, South Korea's impeached president, will appear at a court hearing to appeal against his formal arrest. The investigative agencies have detained Yoon over the imposition of martial law in the country.

Yoon Suk Yeol, impeached South Korean President will be appearing Seoul Court to plead against his arrest over the Martial Law chaos.