South Korea's impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol has been ousted from office by the country's constitutional court. Yoon was impeached over his imposition of martial law on Dec. 3 in a surprise late-night broadcast where he declared martial law in South Korea,

By Joyce Lee and Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was ousted by the Constitutional Court on Friday, which upheld parliament's impeachment motion over his short-lived imposition of martial law last year that sparked the country's worst political crisis in decades.

South Korea’s Constitutional Court is set to rule Friday on the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol, either removing him from office or restoring his powers four months after he threw the country into turmoil with an ill-fated declaration of martial law.

South Korea's Constitutional Court will rule on Friday whether to remove or reinstate impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over his short-lived martial law declaration that sparked a crisis in a country seen as a democratic success story.

South Korea is bracing for a potentially violent public reaction to a Constitutional Court ruling on Friday on whether to remove impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol from office or reinstate him amid the country's worst political crisis in decades.

The constitutional court voted unanimously to uphold president Yoon's impeachment following his short-lived declaration of martial law.

In the latest twist to South Korea’s deepening political crisis, the Constitutional Court, the highest legal authority alongside the Supreme Court, reinstated Prime Minister Han Duck-soo as acting president,

Reaction to a court verdict ousting South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol from office was a vivid window into the nation’s deep political divisions