South Korea has been grappling with political and legal turmoil since impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol’s martial law declaration last month. The investigation into Yoon and his impeachment trial by the Constitutional Court has exposed cracks in the judicial system.

South Korean investigators on Friday were attempting to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over his short-lived martial law decree last month, as hundreds of his supporters gathered at his residence in Seoul,