SEOUL -- South Korea's constitutional court will decide whether to impeach President Yoon Suk-yeol on April 4, the court said Tuesday.

The ruling on Yoon will be delivered at 11:00 am local time (0200 GMT) on Friday and it will be broadcast live, the court said in a statement.

A South Korean appeals court on Wednesday acquitted main opposition leader Lee Jae-myung of an election law violation, reducing the risk that he may not run in a potential early presidential election.

South Korea's Prime Minister Han Duck-soo has been reinstated as acting president after the country's Constitutional Court dismissed a motion for his impeachment 87 days after the motion was filed.

SEOUL -- South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo was reinstated in his position on Monday as the constitutional court rejected a motion by the parliament to impeach him.

SEOUL -- South Korea's opposition parties on Friday submitted an impeachment motion against Choi Sang-mok, deputy prime minister for economic affairs who became acting president in December last year following the impeachments of both president and prime minister.

SEOUL -- South Korea's constitutional court said Thursday that it will decide whether to impeach Prime Minister Han Duck-soo on March 24.

The ruling on Han will be delivered at 10:00 am local time (0100 GMT) on March 24, the court said in a statement.

SEOUL -- A South Korean court approved the release of arrested President Yoon Suk-yeol on Friday, opening a possibility for the impeached leader to be tried without detention.

The Seoul Central District Court accepted Yoon's request to cancel his arrest, which was made by Yoon's legal team on Feb 4.

SEOUL — Ousted South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol became the country's first sitting head of state to stand trial in a criminal case as hearings opened on Thursday regarding his bid to impose martial law.

Seoul's Constitutional Court announced an additional hearing in the impeachment trial of South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol on Tuesday, after the last designated hearing concluded on Thursday.

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol directly questioned former defense minister Kim Yong-hyun on Thursday in the fourth hearing of his impeachment trial, with Kim refuting allegations related to Yoon's Dec 3 martial law declaration.

SEOUL — South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol appeared at the Constitutional Court for the first time on Tuesday, and vowed to cooperate with the judges who will decide whether to remove him from office.

SEOUL -- The South Korean Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) said Monday it is considering the possibility of forcibly summoning and questioning detained President Yoon Suk-yeol, following his continuous refusal to comply with detention investigations on two occasions.

The CIO made the statement during a press conference Monday, saying that measures such as conducting the investigation directly at the detention center are not ruled out, according to local media.

SEOUL — South Korea's President Yoon Suk-yeol refused to appear for fresh questioning by investigators on Thursday, a day after his arrest over a failed martial law declaration.

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol was arrested at the presidential residence on Wednesday, becoming the country's first sitting president to be kept in custody.