Yoon was brought into custody about three hours after hundreds of law enforcement officers entered the residential compound in their second attempt to detain him.

Investigators arrived at the Seoul Detention Centre on Wednesday for a third attempt to forcibly bring in President Yoon Suk Yeol for questioning

Yoon’s detention comes after a stand-off between South Korean investigators and his presidential bodyguards, who blocked earlier efforts to detain him.

Law enforcement authorities have requested a warrant to formally arrest impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, who is spending his third day at a detention center after his lawyers failed in a last-minute attempt to secure his release.

The impeached South Korean president's second attempt to avoid arrest failed as a huge number of police officers detained him at his residence.

A Seoul court issued a warrant Saturday to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol for an extended period over his botched martial law bid last month in the first such detention of a sitting South Korean president.

Embattled president had been holed up for weeks while vowing to 'fight to the end' against the efforts to oust him.

The political crisis in South Korea is only continuing to intensify and will not be resolved with Yoon’s detention.

South Korean investigators have arrested South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol over accusations of insurrection for briefly imposing martial law in a move swiftly overturned by the country’s National Assembly.

Storyline: South Korean police on Wednesday morning dispersed some of the supporters for the impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol, who tried to block investigators from entering the presidential residence.