Overview
- The Seoul Central District Court said deploying troops and police to Parliament and election offices amounted to a mutiny or self‑coup that threatened constitutional order.
- Han Duck‑soo became the first senior official convicted over the episode, receiving a term that exceeded the 15 years sought by the independent prosecutor and he was jailed immediately.
- Judges found Han tried to give the decree procedural cover by approving it in a Cabinet meeting and convicted him of falsifying and destroying the proclamation and of perjury.
- Han has denied most charges and says he told Yoon he opposed the plan, and he retains the right to appeal.
- Yoon remains in detention with eight criminal cases pending, including the rebellion case for which prosecutors have requested the death penalty and a sentencing is set for February 19 following a separate recent five‑year conviction.