A Sidelined Sitting President: South Korea’s Leader Won’t Run the Country

By Chinasaokwu Helen Okoro

Ruling party and prime minister will handle state affairs, not Yoon Suk Yeol after he briefly imposed martial law; opposition calls arrangement illegal.

SEOUL—South Korea’s embattled president will no longer be involved in running the country or diplomacy, according to the ruling party’s leader, who argued the move was made to stabilize state affairs after Yoon Suk Yeol briefly instituted martial law this past week.

Yoon, who just staved off impeachment after his party’s lawmakers boycotted the vote, agreed to the arrangement, said Han Dong-hoon, the head of the conservative People Power Party, in a Sunday morning address. The party, Han added, would seek an “orderly early retreat” for Yoon, whom roughly three-quarters of South Koreans want to see gone.

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