South Korea’s Leadership Crisis in Right-Left Showdown as Court Rules Against Impeaching the Acting President

Tens of thousands from both sides mass on the streets of Seoul in the run-up to the decision on ousting President Yoon.

Kim Do-hun/Yonhap via AP
President Yoon of South Korea greets his supporters as he leaves a detention center at Uiwang, March 8, 2025. Kim Do-hun/Yonhap via AP

SEOUL —The political showdown in South Korea opened Monday with the constitutional court ruling against impeaching the acting president, a soft-spoken economist and diplomat who catapulted to the top after the impeachment of the conservative president, Yoon Suk-yeol. 

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