Just six hours elapsed between South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s declaration of martial law on Tuesday night and his subsequent climbdown, leaving the east Asian country in political turmoil.
As a hardline chief prosecutor serving under Moon Jae-in, his leftwing predecessor as president, Yoon oversaw the imprisonment of former conservative president Park Geun-hye and Samsung chair Lee Jae-yong following a bribery scandal that triggered Park’s impeachment in 2017.
Now, however, it is Yoon who is facing the prospect of impeachment and possible jail time after his botched political gambit left him severely isolated and apparently running out of time despite his term being formally set to run until 2027.
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