A South Korean court on Friday rejected the prosecutors' office request to extend the detention of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over a criminal investigation into his short-lived martial law on Dec.

South Korean prosecutors on Saturday made another request to extend President Yoon Suk Yeol's detention beyond its initial period for a probe into his botched martial law attempt last month, after a Seoul court rejected their earlier request the previous day.

South Korea’s impeached president has denied that he ordered the military to drag lawmakers out of the National Assembly to prevent them from voting to reject his martial law decree last month, as he appeared for the first time before the