South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol attended a court hearing on Saturday to fight a request by investigators to extend his detention on accusations of insurrection. Yoon on Wednesday became the country's first sitting president to be arrested,

South Korea’s impeached president has argued for his release before a Seoul judge as the court reviewed whether to grant a law enforcement request for his formal arrest. Yoon Suk Yeol, who has been in detention since he was apprehended on Wednesday in a massive law enforcement operation at his residence,

Law enforcement authorities have requested a warrant to formally arrest impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, who is spending his third day at a detention center after his lawyers failed in a last-minute attempt to secure his release.