In a statement before his detention, the president said the ‘rule of law has completely collapsed in this country’.

Hundreds of law enforcement officials in South Korea have entered the residential compound of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol in Seoul.

The top aide of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has pleaded with law enforcement agencies to abandon their efforts to detain him over his imposition of martial law last month, as authorities prepare a second attempt to take him into custody.