Protesters flooded streets, demanding President Yoon Suk Yeol resignation after  a long night of military and civilian show of force in South Korea from 11pm on Tuesday night and almost throughout entire early morning night of Wednesday when 190 lawmakers from opposition political party including 18 from the President political party, jumped fences to convey important and urgent parliamentary meeting after President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law in the country and ordered masked martial law  troops with rifles to invade the National Assembly of the forth Asia largest  economy country to stop the lawmakers, but, the soldiers met a stiffer civilian barricades who engaged the soldiers with fire extinguishers at the National Assembly complex and hold them back until the lawmakers successfully held the plenary session and voted to outlaw the President martial law declaration.

Videos posted online showed thousands of South Korean protesters held a candlelight vigil and rally in downtown Seoul streets against President Yoon Suk Yeol, who has been in office since 2022 to resign.

Protesters held up signs that read “Step down President Yoon Suk Yeol” as people and lawmakers attend a rally in Seoul, the South Korea capital, according to Reuters International news agency.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol had on Tuesday declared martial law, vowing to eradicate “shameless pro-North Korean anti-state forces” and restore order. Martial law was last declared in the country in 1979.

Soon after the declaration, protests broke out in Seoul and thousands gathered at the National Assembly with South Korea’s main opposition party lawmakers and some ruling party lawmakers jumped fences and tussled with security forces so they could vote to overturn the law.

According to Reuters, thousands of demonstrators gathered outside the parliament where there were minor clashes with police and military. Lawmakers gathered to vote against martial law, as both opposition lawmakers and leaders of Yoon’s own party decried it as unconstitutional.

All 190 of the lawmakers present voted to lift martial law, including 18 from Yoon’s own party. Yoon ordered troops to pull back and later lifted the decree after convening a cabinet meeting.

190 of the National Assembly’s 300 members defied police and military cordons to vote against the declaration, forcing Yoon to lift the martial law order.

The move late on Tuesday shocked South Koreans, with Yoon calling in the military which released a decree banning protests and activity by parliament and political parties, and placing media under government control, according to Reuters.

The International news agency added that “the military named Army Chief of Staff, General Park An-su, a four-star general, to head a martial law command and released the decree effective at 11 pm on Tuesday.

Besides banning political activity and restricting the media, the decree also ordered striking doctors back to work.
Those who violate martial law could be arrested without a warrant, it said.

Masked martial law troops equipped with rifles, body armour and night-vision equipment entered the National Assembly where they faced off with staffers who opposed them with fire extinguishers”.

Secretary General of South Korea’s National Assembly, Kim Min-ki condemned the military on Wednesday morning for breaking into the legislature during President Yoon Suk Yeol’s brief imposition of martial law, saying that nearly 300 troops had stormed the compound.

Kim Min-ki said at a news briefing that; “I strongly condemn the illegal, unconstitutional actions of the military and the destruction it caused at the National Assembly premises due to President Yoon’s decree of martial law”.

He vowed to seek legal remedies for the damage caused, and he said the police, who prevented some lawmakers from entering the building overnight, would be barred from the premises.

Kim offered the most detailed official account yet of the military’s incursion, saying, about 230 troops were flown by helicopter onto the assembly grounds, and roughly 50 others jumped fences to gain entry, he said.

Kim played closed-circuit footage of soldiers entering the compound at the news briefing, saying that all such video would soon be made public.

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