The number of foreign visitors to Seoul surged this year, despite the martial law and presidential impeachment crisis. The Seoul Metropolitan Government said on March 10 that 900,000 foreign tourists visited the city in January,

Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was released from detention, greeted by cheering supporters waving flags and echoing pro-Trump slogans

The number of international tourists visiting Seoul peaked in January despite the political turmoil that has gripped the country since President Yoon Suk Yeol’s short-lived imposition of martial law last December.

Impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol’s conservative supporters have accused the courts of wrongfully persecuting him in echoes of the language used by President Donald Trump.

Prosecutors indicted Yoon on separate criminal charges related to his martial law decree of leading an insurrection ... He has since been held in solitary confinement at a detention center near Seoul. Insurrection is one of the few criminal charges ...

Investigators have alleged that Yoon's martial-law decree amounted to rebellion. If is convicted of that offense, he would face the death penalty or life imprisonment.

As South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment trial drew to a close, footage of protesters waving flags with Chinese characters was misrepresented in social media posts as evidence of a communist plot against the disgraced leader -- who had cited the threat of communist forces while defending his imposition of martial law.

South Korea’s impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol, on Saturday was released from jail, where he was being held while he faces a criminal trial on charges of insurrection for declaring martial law in December.