Release of President Yoon Seok-yeol... Prosecutors ”Not convinced, but will abandon appeal” = South Korea

On the 8th, South Korean prosecutors accepted a court decision that cited President Yoon Seok-yeol's application to revoke his arrest, and decided to direct President Yoon's release.
The Prosecutor's Office's Emergency Martial Law Special Investigation Headquarters announced on the same day that it had "sent a release order for President Yoon to the Seoul Detention Center."
However, in the court's decision to revoke the detention, it was stated that, "The period not included in the detention period must be calculated in hours, not days, so the prosecution's decision to revoke the detention period must be calculated in hours, not days.
"The decision to the effect that the period not included in the detention period was made after the expiration of the detention period is completely unacceptable," he said.
"This is a unique and unusual decision that not only clearly contradicts legal provisions, but also decades of well-established court precedent and practice."
In response, the Special Investigation Headquarters expressed its dissatisfaction with the court's legally incorrect decision, stated its opinion that it was necessary to correct it, and stated that it would continue to express such opinions in the future.
"The Prosecutor General respected the court's decision to revoke President Yoon's detention and has instructed the special investigation headquarters to release him," the Supreme Prosecutors' Office said in a statement.
The Supreme Prosecutors' Office said, "The previous Criminal Procedure Act provisions that suspended the execution of bail decisions and detention suspension decisions until the final decision of an immediate appeal in relation to the detention of a person were
This would give priority to the appeal over the court's decision, effectively making the court's decision meaningless, and therefore the purpose of the Constitutional Court's decision that determined the law to be unconstitutional and invalid, as well as the warrant principle established by the Constitution,
"Taking all these factors into consideration, we have decided not to file an immediate appeal," he said. "The prosecutor general has instructed the head of the special investigation headquarters to continue the prosecution without wavering, as this is a case of national importance.
"I urge everyone to take all possible measures," he added.