Ahead of the hearing, both sides are gearing up for their closing statements which will justify their respective claims on his insurrection and power abuse charges

Impeached president’s lawyers argue he had ‘no intention to paralyse the country’ by imposing martial law last December

South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol appeared in a Seoul court on Thursday for his first trial hearing on charges of insurrection in the country’s first criminal prosecution of an incumbent leader.