Overview
- The Seoul Central District Court ruled that Yoon obstructed investigators from the anti-corruption office who tried to detain him in January 2025.
- Judges affirmed that the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials acted under a valid search-and-arrest warrant.
- Yoon mobilized the Presidential Security Service and police to blockade his residence and contended the office lacked jurisdiction over insurrection allegations.
- Special counsel Cho Eun-suk sought a combined 10-year term across multiple charges and described Yoon’s conduct as a “grave crime” that “privatized” state institutions.
- Yoon still faces seven additional trials, with a verdict in the insurrection case scheduled for Feb. 19.