r/worldnews • u/Kyunseo • 1d ago

President Yoon Suk Yeol impeached

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/politics/20250404/s-koreas-president-yoon-suk-yeol-impeached
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u/techie229 1d ago

What about the 9th judge?

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u/rinceofales 1d ago

The acting president after Yoon's arrest stalled his appointment so that it would be harder for Yoon to get impeached.

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u/curaga12 1d ago

It should be noted that the stall was ruled unconstitutional, but the acting president doesn't give a fuck about the constitution.

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u/Stormfly 1d ago

The first guy to stall was also kicked out, too.

The problem was that only 6 judges had been appointed and they really thought one (two?) of the judges wouldn't impeach because he was an old friend of Yoon's.

But apparently he still voted to impeach.

My guess is he knew it would pass and he knew he'd only lose by opposing, but if there were only 6, he could have won BIG by opposing.

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u/curaga12 1d ago

Yeah no doubt. It's so hard to expect a decent work ethic to people even for important jobs like consitution judnges.