Who Steps In if South Korea’s President Is Forced Out?
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Who Steps In if South Korea’s President Is Forced Out?
South Korea’s opposition, which controls the National Assembly, has threatened to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol if he does not resign after his ill-fated decision to impose martial law. If Mr. Yoon quits or is removed from office then, under the constitution, Prime Minister Han Duck-soo will step in to perform presidential duties. Mr. Yoon, a conservative, came into office after winning the 2022 presidential election by a threadbare margin, and appointed Mr. Han as the prime minister that year. It marked Mr. Han’s second time in that job; he had served under President Roh Moo-hyun, a liberal, from April 2007 to February 2008. Mr. Han began his career as a civil servant in the early 1970s, working on trade and industrial policy for decades. He received a doctorate in economics from Harvard in 1984. From 2009 to 2012, Mr. Han was South Korea’s ambassador to the United States. Mr. Yoon has been in a bitter standoff with the opposition, led by the progressive Democratic Party, for almost hi…
