SEOUL: When Yoon Suk Yeol (pic) was elected as president in 2022, South Korean voters never expected him to meet a fate similar to that of the previous conservative leader Park Geun-hye.
Once touted as an “anticorruption” investigator who put two of the country’s ex-presidents — Park and Lee Myung-bak — behind bars, Yoon’s popularity began to drastically fall even before taking office.
