South Korea's opposition-led parliament impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol on Saturday (December 14), voting to suspend him from his official duties over his short-lived attempt last week to impose martial law.

Under the constitution Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, who was appointed by Yoon, becomes acting president.

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Yoon is the second conservative president in a row to be impeached in South Korea, after Park Geun-hye was removed from office in 2017.

Saturday’s motion was carried after some members of Yoon's People Power Party joined the opposition parties, which control 192 seats in the 300-member national assembly, clearing the two-thirds threshold needed for impeachment. The number of lawmakers supporting impeachment was 204, with 85 against, three abstentions and eight invalid ballots.

Yoon shocked the nation late on December 3 when he gave the military sweeping emergency powers to root out what he called "anti-state forces" and overcome obstructionist political opponents.

(Production: Dogyun Kim, Daewoung Kim, Heejung Jung)