Who is Yoon Suk Yeol, the controversial South Korean president who tried and failed to impose martial law?

Conservative former prosecutor has taken a hardline stance on North Korea and says he is ‘anti-feminist’

• South Korea crisis live
• Full report: Yoon faces calls to resign

For Yoon Suk Yeol, it appears, the tables have turned.

In 2017 the then prosecutor general led the legal action to remove then-president Park Geun-hye from office after she was convicted of abuse of power.