Seoul: Yoon Suk Yeol’s political rise was fast.The former star prosecutor clinched South Korea’s presidency only a year after he entered politics.

But his downfall was even faster. The Constitutional Court removed him from office on Friday, about four months after he made a deeply baffling decision to declare martial law and send troops to Seoul’s streets.

Yoon’s style — highly assertive and strong-willed, but often uncompromising and inflexible — worked for a prosecutor standing up to higher-ups, but not for a president forced to work with an opposition-dominated legislature on an array of contentious issues.

Yoon, 64, a conservative, said his martial law decree was a desperate attempt to call on public support for his fight against “anti-state” liberal rivals who used their parliamentary majority to obstruct his agenda and impeach top officials. But many observers say the stunt was political suicide, as the liberal opposition-controlled parliament quickly struck down Yoon’s decree before impeaching him and sending his case to the Constitutional Court. ‘ Yoon was separately indicted by prosecutors for rebellion, a charge that can carry the death penalty or life imprisonment.

Here’s what you need to know about Yoon’s life to understand the sudden end of his presidency.

A popular prosecutor Before becoming president in 2022, Yoon worked as prosecutor for about 26 years, establishing an image as a strong-minded, uncompromising prosecutor who didn’t yield to pressure from........

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