Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was taken on Wednesday to a detention center near the country's capital, Seoul, after being questioned by law enforcement officials over his imposition of martial law last month.

South Korea's Yoon Suk Yeol has become the country's first sitting president to be arrested, ending a weeks-long standoff between investigators and his personal security. Yoon, whose failed attempt to impose martial law plunged the country into turmoil and saw him impeached by parliament, is being investigated on charges of insurrection.