Yoon had initially requested a postponement of Thursday's 2 pm hearing, citing a scheduling conflict with the first preliminary hearing of his criminal trial on insurrection charges.
The South Korean Constitutional Court said on Thursday it will hold an additional hearing for President Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment trial next week.
South Korea’s democracy has faced yet another stern test with the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol, a polarising figure whose ill-conceived martial law decree plunged the nation into a constitutional crisis.
A second motion to impeach South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol over his botched martial law declaration was reported to the National Assembly on Friday, with the nation reeling from Yoon's December 3 invocation of martial law that triggered unprecedented political turmoil.
Martial law troops entered the National Assembly compound and were attempting to enter the main parliamentary building Wednesday after President Yoon Suk Yeol declared emergency martial law.
Earlier in the month, there were 121,000 protesters out on the streets, 15,000 of which were in Paris.
Chung was the National Assembly speaker between June 2016 and May 2018. He studied law at Korea University and business at New York University.
"The IMF team has reached a staff-level agreement on economic policies that could be supported by a 39-month Extended Fund Arrangement (EFF) for about $6 billion," the IMF had announced in a press release.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the much awaited National Minimum Wage Bill into law.
In a major pre-emptive strike, the Indian Air Force (IAF) dropped multiple 1000 kg laser-guided bombs on Jaish-e-Mohammed’s biggest camp in Balakot.
