{"id":310142,"date":"2026-01-16T15:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/south-koreas-ex-president-sentenced-to-five-years-in-prison\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T15:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:00:08","slug":"south-koreas-ex-president-sentenced-to-five-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/south-koreas-ex-president-sentenced-to-five-years-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea&#8217;s ex-president sentenced to five years in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/fjxW3Lu0WLY\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"South Korea's ex-president sentenced to five years in prison\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fjxW3Lu0WLY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>South Korea&#8217;s former president Yoon Suk Yeol has been sentenced to five years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe]<\/p>\n<p>The sentencing relates in large part to Yoon\u2019s extraordinary efforts to resist being taken into custody for weeks after his impeachment. His own security staff were eventually outmatched by thousands of police, in January last year.<\/p>\n<p>In the course of a crazy few hours in December 2024, Yoon tried and failed to seize control from parliament, declaring martial law. A short time later, he withdrew his extraordinary measure and was on his way to impeachment, arrest and prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Get more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/ <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe<\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea&#8217;s former president Yoon Suk Yeol has been sentenced to five years in prison. [Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe] The sentencing relates in large part to Yoon\u2019s extraordinary efforts to resist being taken into custody for weeks after his impeachment. His own security staff were eventually outmatched by thousands of police, in January [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":310143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128813],"tags":[128872,132231,129461],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-310142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-channel-4-news","tag-former","tag-koreas","tag-south"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>South Korea&#039;s ex-president sentenced to five years in prison | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch South Korea&#039;s ex-president sentenced to five years in prison for free, here on News ISC. 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