South Korea’s anti-corruption agency has requested that police take over efforts to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol after its investigators failed to bring him to custody following a standoff with the presidential security service last week.

South Korea’s anti-corruption agency was unable to bring Yoon to custody following a standoff with the security service of the suspended president last week.

It was unclear when and how police could make the arrest and whether the presidential security service, which has blocked access by investigators with a search warrant to Yoon's office and official residence,

The arrest warrant for an incumbent president is unprecedented, and deepens the political crisis that has engulfed South Korea.

A South Korean court on Tuesday approved an arrest warrant for President Yoon Suk Yeol, who has been impeached and suspended from power over his decision to impose martial law on December 3, investigating authorities said.

The man central to blocking investigators from arresting South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol has come under the spotlight himself in the political crisis sparked by Yoon's brief declaration of martial law last month.

Monash University Professor Gil-Soo Han claims it is ‘not surprising’ South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol resisted arrest.