“The whole situation just naturally evolved in a way that Yoon Suk Yeol became the symbol of this movement of freedom and liberal democracy, vis-a-vis communism, socialism, and tyranny,” said Lee Jung-hoon, a conservative legal scholar and dean at Seoul’s Yonsei University.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is in court for a hearing where his lawyers are contesting his arrest on a criminal charge alleging he was orchestrating a rebellion when he imposed martial law.

With 7 weeks of hearings over, and suspended president indicating constitutional, political reform if reinstated, Assembly urges justices to remove him for ‘sake of democracy’ The Constitutional Court’s conclusion of arguments in President Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment trial on Tuesday brought an end to more than two months of hearings.