Editing Politics of South Korea (section)

==National government==
{{Main|Government of South Korea}}

===Executive branch===
{{office-table}}
|[[President of South Korea|President]]
|[[Lee Ju-ho]]
|Independent
|2 Mat 2025
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|[[Prime Minister of South Korea|Prime Minister]]
|[[Lee Ju-ho]]
|Independent
|2 May 2025
|}

The head of state is the president, who is elected by direct popular vote for a single five-year<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/korea-south/|title=Korea, South|work=The World Factbook|publisher=Central Intelligence Agency|access-date=30 May 2017|archive-date=29 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210129003620/https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/korea-south/|url-status=live}}</ref> term. The president is Commander-in-Chief of the [[Republic of Korea Armed Forces]] and enjoys considerable executive powers.

The president appoints the prime minister with approval of the National Assembly, as well as appointing and presiding over the State Council of chief ministers as the head of government. On 12 March 2004, the executive power of then President [[Roh Moo-hyun]] was suspended when the Assembly voted to impeach him and Prime Minister [[Goh Kun]] became an Acting President. On 14 May 2004, the Constitutional Court overturned the impeachment decision made by the Assembly and Roh was reinstated.

On 10 May 2022, [[Yoon Suk Yeol]] succeeded [[Moon Jae-in]] as president of South Korea.<ref>{{cite news |title=Yoon Suk-yeol sworn in as South Korea's new president |url=https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2022/05/356_328834.html |work=[[The Korea Times]] |date=10 May 2022 |language=en |access-date=23 September 2022 |archive-date=23 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220923202529/https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2022/05/356_328834.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Legislative branch===
{{Main|National Assembly of South Korea}}
[[File:Seoul-National.Assembly-02.jpg|thumb|[[National Assembly of South Korea]] in [[Seoul]]]]
The National Assembly ({{Korean|hangul=국회|hanja=國會|rr=gukhoe}}) has 300 members, elected for a four-year term, 253 members in single-seat [[Electoral district|constituencies]] and 47 members by [[proportional representation]]. The ruling [[Democratic Party (South Korea, 2015)|Democratic Party of Korea]] is the largest party in the Assembly.

===Judicial branch===
{{main article|Judiciary of South Korea}}
The South Korean judiciary is independent of the other two branches of government, and is composed of two different [[Supreme court#South Korea|highest courts]]. Inferior ordinary courts are under the Supreme Court, whose justices are appointed by the president of South Korea with the consent of the National Assembly. In addition, the Constitutional Court oversees questions of constitutionality, as single and the only court whose justices are appointed by the president of South Korea by equal portion of nomination from the president, the National Assembly, and the Supreme Court Chief justice. South Korea has not accepted compulsory [[International Court of Justice|ICJ]] jurisdiction.