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Yoon Suk Yeol

In this Korean name, the family name is Yoon.
His Excellency
Yoon Suk Yeol
윤석열
Official portrait, 2022
13th President of South Korea
In office
10 May 2022 – 4 April 2025[a]
Prime Minister
Preceded byMoon Jae-in
Succeeded byHan Duck-soo (acting)
Prosecutor General of South Korea
In office
25 July 2019 – 4 March 2021
PresidentMoon Jae-in
Preceded byMun Mu-il
Succeeded byKim Oh-soo
Personal details
Born (1960-12-18) 18 December 1960 (age 64)
Seoul, South Korea
Political partyPeople Power (since 2021)
Other political
affiliations		Independent (before 2021)
Spouse
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(m. 2012)​
Parent
ResidencePresidential residence
EducationSeoul National University (LLB, LLM)
ProfessionLawyer
Signature
Korean name
Hangul
윤석열
Hanja
尹錫悅
Revised RomanizationYun Seokyeol
McCune–ReischauerYun Sŏgyŏl
IPA[jun sʰʌŋnjʌɭ, - sʰʌɡjʌɭ][b]
Yoon Suk Yeol's voice
Yoon Suk Yeol speaks on South Korea–United States relations
Recorded 27 April 2023
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a. ^ Suspended from 14 December 2024 to 4 April 2025

Yoon Suk Yeol (Korean: 윤석열;[b] born 18 December 1960) is a South Korean politician and former prosecutor who served as the 13th president of South Korea from 2022 to 2025, when he was removed from office by the Constitutional Court of South Korea. He was impeached by the National Assembly in 2024 after his controversial declaration of martial law. Yoon was the shortest-serving directly elected president of South Korea in its democratic history.

Born in Seoul, Yoon received both a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in law from Seoul National University. In his capacity as chief of the Seoul Central District Prosecutor's Office, he played a key role in convicting former presidents Park Geun-hye and Lee Myung-bak for abuse of power.[2][3][4] In 2019, then-president Moon Jae-in appointed Yoon as Prosecutor General of South Korea from 2019 to 2021. During Yoon's leadership, the Supreme Prosecutor's Office conducted embattled investigations into Cho Kuk, an influential figure in the Moon administration, that led to Cho's resignation as Minister of Justice.[5][6] Yoon's clashes with the Moon administration prior to his resignation as prosecutor general in March 2021 led to his rise as a potential presidential candidate among conservative voters.

In June 2021, Yoon announced his candidacy in the 2022 South Korean presidential election. He joined the right-wing People Power Party (PPP) in July and won its nomination in November. Considered a conservative and economically liberal politician, Yoon ran on a platform promising economic deregulation and measures such as abolishing the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family. He narrowly defeated Democratic Party nominee Lee Jae-myung by less than a percentage point on 9 March 2022 and assumed office as president on 10 May, becoming the first elected president to be born after the end to fighting in the Korean War. During his presidency, Yoon's foreign policy has been described as both more hawkish toward North Korea and friendlier to Japan compared to previous South Korean presidents. His handling of the Seoul Halloween crowd crush in 2022[7] and the ongoing medical crisis has attracted criticism.[8] In the 2024 parliamentary midterm elections, Yoon's party suffered an electoral defeat, which weakened his political power.[9][10] Under Yoon's tenure, South Korea underwent democratic backsliding and a shift towards authoritarianism. He received mostly low approval ratings as president and had been described as a lame duck.[11]

On 3 December 2024, Yoon declared martial law in South Korea, the first time it had been declared since the military dictatorship of Chun Doo-hwan in 1980, accusing members of the National Assembly of supporting North Korea; however, Yoon lifted it after the National Assembly passed an emergency motion nullifying the declaration several hours after Yoon's speech.[12] Amid widespread criticism and mass protests, an impeachment motion was introduced against Yoon on 4 December,[13] though it fell short of the 200 votes needed to pass.[14][15][16] He was successfully impeached and suspended from his presidential powers in a second vote on 14 December 2024, with 204 voting in favor, including 12 members of his own party.[17] On 31 December 2024, Yoon became the first sitting president in South Korean history to face an arrest warrant, and on 15 January 2025, he became the first sitting president to be arrested and incarcerated.[18][19] Yoon is currently being investigated for heading an insurrection, and he may face the death penalty if convicted.[20] On 4 April 2025, the Constitutional Court unanimously upheld Yoon's impeachment by the National Assembly, officially terminating his presidency.


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  20. ^ "South Korea: Yoon charged with insurrection over martial law attempt". BBC. 27 January 2025. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
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