The South Korean Ministry of Justice announced on Monday that President Yoon Suk-yeol is prohibited from leaving the country.
Yoon Suk-yeol became the first sitting president to be banned from leaving the country.
Woo Dong-won, head of the South Korean Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials, instructed the measure during a National Assembly legislative and judicial committee session. The office then submitted an exit ban request to the Ministry of Justice for Yoon Suk-yeol.
Earlier that day, the Special Investigation Team under the National Police Agency’s National Investigation Headquarters announced at a press conference that it had imposed emergency exit bans on former Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun, former Minister of Interior and Safety Lee Sang-min, former Counterintelligence Commander Ryu In-hyung, and Army Chief of Staff Park Ahn-soo.
Meanwhile, the largest opposition party, the Democratic Party of Korea, submitted the ‘December 3 Yoon Suk-yeol Insurrection Investigation Law’ to the National Assembly on Monday, aiming to investigate whether Yoon Suk-yeol violated the constitution or law during the declaration of an emergency martial law.
The Democratic Party of Korea submitted the ‘December 3 Yoon Suk-yeol Insurrection Investigation Law’ and requested to address the ‘Kim Keon-hee Special Investigation Law.’ They plan to push for a vote on the ‘Kim Keon-hee Special Investigation Law’ and the ‘Insurrection Investigation Law’ at the National Assembly sessions on the 12th and 14th respectively.