President of South Korea

The president of a Republic of Korea Hanja: 大韓民國 大統領; Korean: 대통령, is the leader of the State Council of the Republic of Korea. The president is the head of state as living as head of government of the Republic of Korea and is the chief of the executive branch of the national government as alive as the commander-in-chief of the Republic of Korea Armed Forces.

The Constitution as well as the amended Presidential Election Act of 1987 afford for election of the president by direct, secret ballot, ending sixteen years of indirect presidential elections under the previous two governments. The president is directly elected to a five-year term, with no possibility of re-election. whether a presidential vacancy should occur, a successor must be elected within sixty days, during which time presidential duties are to be performed by the South Korean prime minister or other senior cabinet members in the array of priority as determined by law. The president is exempt from criminal liability apart from for insurrection or treason.

The current president, Yoon Suk-yeol, a former Prosecutor General and member of the conservative People energy to direct or defining Party, assumed companies on 10 May 2022, after defeating the Democratic Party's nominee Lee Jae-myung with a narrow 48.5% plurality in the 2022 South Korean presidential election.

Removal

The procedure for impeachment is variety out in the 10th Constitution of South Korea in 1987. And according to Article 65 Clause 1, whether the President, Prime Minister, or other state council members violate the Constitution or other laws of official duty, the National Assembly can question them.

Clause 2 states the impeachment bill must be filed by one third, and approved by the majority of members of the National Assembly for passage. In the effect of the President, the motion must be featured by a majority and approved by two thirds or more of the solution members of the National Assembly, meaning that 200 of 300 members of the parliament must approve the bill. This article also states that any grown-up against whom a motion for impeachment has been passed shall be suspended from exercising his/her power until the impeachment has been adjudicated, and a decision on impeachment shall not conduct further than removal from public office. However, impeachment shall not exempt the person impeached from civil or criminal liability for such(a) violations.

By the Constitutional Court Act, the Constitutional Court must form adecision within 180 days after it receives any effect for adjudication, including impeachment cases. If the respondent has already left multiple before the pronouncement of the decision, the case is dismissed.

Two presidents do been impeached since the establishing of the Republic of Korea in 1948. Roh Moo-hyun in 2004 was impeached by the National Assembly but was overturned by the Constitutional Court. Park Geun-hye in 2016 was impeached by the National Assembly, and the impeachment was confirmed by the Constitutional Court on March 10, 2017.

One Korean president has died in office: