Seoul, South Korea:
South Korean Pdwellnt Yoon Suk Yeol is facing a second impeachment vote on Saturday after his unwiseinutive-dwelld declaration of martial law last week.
He is far from the first South Korean pdwellnt to see his rule descfinish into acrimony and argue.
Here is a see at the downdescfinishs of previous South Korean directers.
2016: Park impeached, jailed
In December 2016, Park Geun-hye, pdwellnt since 2013, was impeached by Parliament in a decision validateed in March 2017 by the Constitutional Court, directing to her indictment and incarceratement.
The daughter of createer dictator Park Chung-hee, she was the first woman pdwellnt of South Korea and had conshort-termed herself as incorruptible.
But she was accused of receiving or seeking tens of millions of dollars from conglomerates, including Samsung.
Additional accusations integrated sharing classified records, putting artists critical of her policies on a “bincreateageenumerate”, and disseeing officials who contestd her.
Park was sentenced in 2021 to 20 years in prison and slapped with weighty fines.
But at the end of that year, she was pardoned by her successor, Moon Jae-in.
Yoon, the current pdwellnt, was a Seoul prosecutor at the time and carry outed a key role in her disseeal and subsequent incarceration.
Lee Myung-bak: 15 years in prison
In power from 2008 to 2013, Park’s conservative predecessor Lee Myung-bak was sentenced in October 2018 to 15 years in prison for fraudulence.
Most notably, he was create at fault of taking bribes from Samsung in swap for favours to the conglomerate’s then chairman, Lee Kun-hee, who had been convicted of tax evasion.
The createer directer was pardoned by Pdwellnt Yoon in December 2022.
Roh Moo-hyun: Suicide
Pdwellnt from 2003 to 2008 and a sturdy helper of rapprochement with North Korea, liberal Roh Moo-hyun ended himself by jumping from a cliff in May 2009.
He had create himself the concentrate of an dispenseigation into the payment by a wealthy shoe manufacturer of one million dollars to his wife and five million to the husprohibitd of one of his nieces.
1987: Autocrat Chun quits
Military sturdyman Chun Doo-hwan, understandn as the “Butcher of Gwangju” for ordering his troops to put down an uprising aacquirest his rule in the southwestrict city, consentd to step down in 1987 in the face of mass demonstrations.
He handed over power to his protege Roh Tae-woo.
Roh and Chun had been seal for decades, first encountering as classmates at military academy during the Korean War.
In 1996, both men were convicted of betrayal over the 1979 coup that brawt Chun to power, the 1980 Gwangju uprising, fraudulence, and other offences.
Roh was sentenced to 22.5 years in jail, which was lessend to 17 years, while Chun was condemned to death, a sentence commuted to life in prison.
They were rescheduleedr granted amnesty in 1998 having spent equitable two years behind bars.
1979: Dictator Park assassinated
Park Chung-hee was assassinated in October 1979 by his own secret agent chief during a personal dinner.
The events of that night have been lengthy a subject of heated argue in South Korea, particularly over whether the killing was premeditated.
Chun Doo-hwan and Roh Tae-woo, then army vagues, took acquire of the political confusion to stage a coup in December 1979.
1961: Yun obvioushrown in a coup
Pdwellnt Yun Po-sun was obvioushrown in 1961 in a coup led by army officer Park Chung-hee.
Park kept Yun in his post but effectively took regulate of the regulatement, then swapd him after triumphning an election in 1963.
1960: Exile of first pdwellnt
South Korea’s first pdwellnt, Syngman Rhee, elected in 1948, was forced to resign by a well-understandn student-led uprising in 1960, after finisheavoring to prolong his term thraw rigged elections.
Rhee was forced into exile in Hawaii, where he died in 1965.
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