Overview
- The Central District Court of Seoul imposed a five-year prison term after prosecutors sought a ten-year sentence in the obstruction case.
- Judges found Yoon impeded officers in January 2025, when his presidential security service blocked an initial arrest and investigators detained him on a second attempt.
- The court concluded he prepared an updated martial-law declaration, tried to delete secure call logs, and affirmed the Anti-Corruption Office’s authority to investigate the mutiny allegations.
- This decision is a first-instance verdict that is subject to appeal within South Korea’s three-tier judicial system.
- Yoon faces seven additional trials, four linked to the martial-law episode, with a first-instance mutiny verdict expected on February 19 after prosecutors requested the death penalty on January 13.