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Well, it was a unanimous decision by the eight justices who sit on the constitutional court
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What led to this day was, of course, President Yoon's controversial declaration of martial law on the night of December 3rd
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Then Yoon's reasoning behind this was that the opposition had too much power in parliament and was disrupting state affairs
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He also, without providing any evidence, accused the Democrats of being infiltrated by North Koreans
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On December 14th, the opposition-controlled Parliament impeached him with 204 votes out of 300, including 12 members of Yoon's own Conservative Party
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And then the case was transferred to the Constitutional Court. It had 180 days to uphold or dismiss this impeachment vote
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Fast forward to today, the court tore up the arguments presented by Yoon's lawyers one by one and upheld this impeachment
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This whole waiting period has been politically tumultuous. The opposition Democrats impeached the acting president as well and then threatened to impeach his successor too
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We mob the ruling party's leader publicly split with President Yoon after plans of an alleged assassination plot during martial law were revealed
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Besides politics, it's also been a period fraught with natural disasters and other types of disasters
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We remember that deadly plane crash in Korea, as well as those devastating wildfires
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So with Friday's verdict, we are closing up this chapter of uncertain or unstable leadership
