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SOUTH KOREA

Court to hold Yoon's 1st pretrial hearing

South Korea's Constitutional Court said on Monday that it will hold the first pretrial hearing over President Yoon Suk-yeol's impeachment on Friday as scheduled. A court official told a televised news conference that the first preliminary hearing would be held on Dec 27 as planned as the court deemed the impeachment notice delivered to Yoon, who repeatedly defied the delivery. The official said the delivery was already effective on Friday when all relevant documents arrived.