The Constitutional Court said Friday it will hold an additional hearing for President Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment trial next week, selecting impeached Prime Minister Han Duck-soo to testify as a witness.

The South Korean Constitutional Court said on Thursday it will hold an additional hearing for President Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment trial next week.

SEOUL -- South Korea's constitutional court on Thursday designated one more hearing of President Yoon Suk-yeol's impeachment trial. The court said the ninth hearing will be held at 2:00 pm local time (0500 GMT) on Feb 18. The eighth formal hearing was held earlier on Thursday with the arrested president being present.

South Korea’s Constitutional Court will hold another hearing next week before deciding whether President Yoon Suk Yeol should be permanently removed from office for his ill-fated martial law declaration in December.

Suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol was detained last month on insurrection charges, becoming the first sitting South Korean head of state to be arrested

South Korea's impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol attended on Thursday the eighth hearing of his impeachment trial over his short-lived imposition of martial law, at the Constitutional Court in Seoul. (Camera: JEON HEON-KYUN).