In a statement before his detention, the president said the ‘rule of law has completely collapsed in this country’.

South Korea’s anti-corruption agency says President Yoon was detained after hundreds of its investigators and police officers arrived at his presidential compound.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been arrested for questioning, according to the country’s anti corruption agency, in the latest chapter of a weekslong political saga that began with the embattled president’s shock martial law decree last month.