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International Business Times
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Claire LEE and Jin-kyu KANG

'I'm So Happy': Tears Of Joy, K-pop On Seoul Streets As Yoon Impeached

Police said at least 200,000 had gathered outside parliament in Seoul to call for Yoon's removal (Credit: AFP)

South Koreans wept and screamed with joy in freezing Seoul on Saturday as parliament voted to remove President Yoon Suk Yeol from office over his failed bid to impose martial law.

Inside the ornate seat of South Korea's hard-won democracy, lawmakers voted 204 to 85 to impeach Yoon for his "insurrectionary" push to suspend civilian rule for the first time in more than four decades.

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