Overview
- Lawmakers approved a second comprehensive special counsel bill 172–2, reopening probes into Yoon Suk Yeol’s failed 2024 martial law bid, allegations involving Kim Keon Hee and the 2023 Marine death, with up to 251 staff and 170 days authorized.
- The Democratic Party used its majority to end a 24-hour filibuster and pass the bill, while the People Power Party boycotted the vote and denounced the move as politically driven.
- PPP leader Jang Dong-hyeok began a hunger strike and demanded separate special counsels on alleged Unification Church bribery and nomination scandals as the opposition rallied against the bill.
- The PPP ethics committee voted to expel former leader Han Dong-hoon over claims his family coordinated 1,000–1,600 defamatory posts on a members-only forum, a decision that still requires supreme council approval.
- Han rejected the findings as fabricated, likened the action to ‘another martial law,’ and his lawyer said they will take the case to court rather than seek an internal rehearing.