(4 Apr 2025)
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Seoul, South Korea – 4 April 2025
1. Various of supporters of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol in front of presidential residence
2. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Woo Dong Kyun, Yoon supporter: ++QUALITY AS INCOMING++
"As a citizen I cannot accept today’s ruling. They ruled 8:0 unanimously (against Yoon), and the reason many people here did not expect such result was that the trial proceeded hastily. The President’s right to defense was not properly guaranteed. And the parliament’s impeachment procedure was not carried out properly. There were many circumstantial proofs that testimony and evidence in this trial were fabricated. However, the Justices made a unilateral ruling today."
3. Wide of anti-Yoon protesters celebrating court impeachment ruling
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Sarah Yoon, anti-Yoon protester:
"I am very happy, it’s because the impeachment has passed. But the judge said everything about what people want. That’s what we have been sought. So I am so proud of our country, the Constitution. I am very very proud of ( it)."
5. Wide of anti-Yoon protesters
STORYLINE:
Supporters of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol expressed anger on Friday Mtowards the Constitutional Court Justices who ruled unanimously to remove him from office.
Yoon supporter Woo Dong Kyun said many people including himself could not accept the decision because the Justices made a unanimous ruling while ignoring "circumstantial proofs that testimony and evidence in this trial were fabricated".
Meanwhile, near the Constitutional Court, Yoon’s opponents sang and danced in joy after watching the live broadcast of the court upholding Yoon’s impeachment.
Sarah Yoon, an anti-Yoon protester, said she was very happy not just because the impeachment was upheld but also because the Justices said everything that people have been wanting to hear.
The unanimous verdict capped a dramatic fall for Yoon, a former star prosecutor who went from political novice to president in 2022, just a year after he entered politics.
In a nationally televised verdict, the court’s acting chief Moon Hyung-bae said the eight-member bench upheld Yoon’s impeachment because his martial law decree seriously violated the Constitution and other laws.
The court’s ruling Friday triggers a by-election for a new president.
AP video by Johnson Lai and Ayaka McGill
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