President Yoon Suk Yeol's short-lived declaration of martial law has created South Korea's biggest constitutional crisis since the country democratized in the late 1980s, making him the third South Korean president to be suspended from power through impeachment.
Mr. Yoon faces a criminal inquiry, the first ever to target a sitting South Korean president, being banned from leaving the country as police investigate possible insurrection over his martial law decree.
The martial law decree, which lasted only six hours, threw South Korea's democracy into chaos and drew public outrage, recalling the country's painful history of military dictatorship decades ago.
Now, Mr. Yoon's political future rests with the Constitutional Court, which will decide within the next six months whether to reinstate him or formally remove him.
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