Yoon, 64, a conservative, said his martial law decree was a desperate attempt to call on public support for his fight against anti-state liberal rivals who used their parliamentary majority to obstruct his agenda and impeach top officials.
Yoon's style highly assertive and strong-willed, but often uncompromising and inflexible worked for a prosecutor standing up to higher-ups, but not for a president forced to work with an opposition-dominated legislature on an array of contentious issues.
Yoon Suk Yeol's political rise was fast: the former star prosecutor clinched South Korea's presidency only a year after he entered politics.
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