South Korea Court Sentences Ex-President Yoon to Five Years for Obstruction

Overview

• Prosecutors had sought a 10-year term, but the court imposed a five-year sentence.
• Yoon was acquitted on an official-document falsification charge due to insufficient evidence.
• The defense has seven days to appeal the conviction and sentence.
• The case centers on claims he excluded officials from martial-law planning and later resisted arrest by sheltering in the presidential residence.
• He still faces seven more trials, including an insurrection case where prosecutors requested the death penalty, though executions have not been carried out since 1997.