The preparation period for the first hearing of the impeachment trial is over...the next trial on January 3

The hearing preparation period ended in about 40 minutes...Both parties are present
Judge Jeong Hyung-sik and Judge Lee Mi-sun's life plan to proceed with the preparation date
"The presidential impeachment case is the most important..."Fast forward".

[Anchor]
President Yoon Suk Yeol's first impeachment trial, the preparation date for the defense, ended in about 40 minutes.

The next anniversary will be held a week later, on January 3rd.

I'll connect you to a reporter and find out more.

Reporter Kwon Junsu

[Reporter]
Yes, the Constitutional Court.

[Anchor]
How did the preparation date for the first hearing go?

[Reporter]
Yes, the preparation date for the first hearing of President Yoon's impeachment trial began at 2 p.m., and it ended in about 40 minutes.

Both the National Assembly and President Yoon's lawyers attended, and President Yoon did not appear at the trial because he was not obligated to attend today.

Judge Jeong Hyung-sik and Judge Lee Mi-sun conducted it.

The presidential impeachment case is the last one to come in yet, but it's more important and urgent than anything else, so it's going to be fast."

The hearing preparation date first began when President Yoon, the respondent, received evidence submitted by the claimant's National Assembly.President Yun

said he received the submission documents only this morning.

Earlier, President Yoon requested to postpone the date of preparation for pleading,

The court explained that there was no good reason for this and that it did not accept the application.

[Anchor]
There was a process to organize the issues of the impeachment trial, right?

[Reporter]
Yes, Judge Jeong Hyeong-sik, the chief judge, also looked at the reasons for the impeachment of the National Assembly one by one.

Yoon's declaration of martial law, his declaration through a martial law commander, and his use of the military and police to block the National Assembly and obstruct parliamentary activities.

It also included the seizure and search of the National Election Commission without a warrant.

The National Assembly also took issue with the attempt to arrest not only key political figures, including Lee Jae-myung, chairman of the Democratic Party of Korea, and Han Dong-hoon, former leader of the People's Power, but also judicial figures.

On the other hand, President Yoon said he would also argue whether the impeachment trial request was legal, and that he would submit a document later to seek legal requirements.

In addition, it was not intended to delay the trial in the process of service procedures,

The deadline was set quickly even though we had to prepare a lawsuit after sufficient lawyers were formed, and we asked for the next date to be set in consideration of this.

The next preparation date for the 2nd hearing has been set at 2 p.m. on January 3, 2025.

So far, I'm YTN Kwon Junsu at the Constitutional Court.

a photographer; Park Kyung-tae