The effort to impeach South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol has failed after the conservative ruling part of the nation's leader boycotted the vote put forward by the liberal opposition. Late Tuesday,

The opposition coalition, which holds a majority in parliament, needs eight members of the ruling party to impeach the president.

A massive rally of protesters assembled near the National Assembly building in Seoul on a bitterly cold Saturday to call for President Yoon Suk Yeol's removal from office ahead of an impeachment vote in parliament.

Most lawmakers in President Yoon's ruling party boycotted a vote Saturday to deny a two-thirds majority needed to suspend his presidential powers. With growing protests, polls show most South Koreans support his removal.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol faces the greatest challenge of his brief but chequered political career, despite surviving a bruising impeachment challenge, as members of his own party called for him to resign for imposing martial law.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol survives an impeachment motion in parliament on Saturday after members of his party boycotted the vote.

Ruling party lawmakers walked out of a vote to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol, but voting remains open until a threshold of ballots cast has been reached.

Opposition parties will need a handful of votes from Yoon's party to pass the impeachment bill brought on by the opposition after Yoon attempted to impose martial law earlier this week. Several lawmakers from Yoon's People Power Party are in a closed-door meeting,