South Korea's Supreme Court has finalised Yoon Suk Yeol's seven-year sentence in the first martial law case to reach it. The ruling closes one chapter of the crisis, but he remains jailed as other serious cases continue.

Yoon, who is already in detention, is also appealing a separate life sentence for leading an insurrection with his martial law declaration.

The court dismissed Yoon's appeals, saying there ​was no misunderstanding of any legal interpretations in the rulings.

South Korea’s Supreme Court has upheld a seven-year prison sentence for former President Yoon Suk Yeol in the first case to reach the country’s highest court from the several criminal trials related to his brief imposition of martial law in...

The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a seven-year prison term for former President Yoon Suk Yeol for obstructing justice by blocking investigators from detaining him in the wake of his failed martial law bid in 2024.