Former President Yoon Suk Yeol was sentenced to life in prison for his brief imposition of martial law in a dramatic culmination to the country's biggest political crisis in decades.

Yoon, a former top prosecutor before becoming president, faces eight separate trial proceedings concerning his martial law declaration in 2024 and other actions, having lost presidential immunity sinc...

Yoon abruptly declared martial law in a televised address in December 2024, saying drastic measures were needed to root out "anti-state forces".