Timeline: How Yoon’s Presidency in South Korea Led to Martial Law Order

Yoon Suk Yeol’s decree, and his reversal under pressure from lawmakers, were the culmination of years of feuding between the country’s two main political camps.

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South Korea’s Yoon lifts martial law order

President abandons plan after parliament rejects his emergency decree
Financial Times - 17h
South Korea's president rescinds martial law order

Protestors flooded the streets of Seoul after President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law, but lawmakers voted to block the measure and eventually the South Korean leader reversed the decree.
NBC News - 22h
Watch: 'Deeply disturbed' South Koreans react

People in Seoul express anxiety and confusion following the president's now-rescinded martial law order.
BBC News - 13h
What led to South Korea's president declaring martial law?

South Korea's president lifted the martial law he imposed on Tuesday after the parliament defied him by voting to overturn it. CBS News senior national security correspondent Charlie D'Agata joins ...
CBS News - 19h
South Korea parliament votes to defy president, lift martial law order

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol accused the country's opposition of controlling the parliament and sympathizing with North Korea.
CBS News - 1d
South Korea's president reverses martial law order after nationwide outcry

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law in an unannounced late-night TV address on Tuesday and was immediately met with defiance from opposition lawmakers in the National Assembly.
NBC News - 22h