Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was back in a solitary jail cell on Thursday with basic food and a khaki prison uniform after prosecutors secured a new detention warrant over his bid to impose martial law last year.

South Korean prosecutors have filed a new request to detain former President Yoon Suk Yeol, who faces insurrection charges related to a martial law declaration in December. Yoon, ousted in April after impeachment,

After months of political chaos and economic headwinds, South Korea's financial markets are staging a dramatic comeback. The country’s benchmark Kospi index has surged 30 percent since January, making it the best-performing stock market in Asia for the first half of 2025, the New York Times reported.