As the verdict was announced, Yoon supporters cried, shouted and cursed at the screen.
“It’s beyond insane," Edward Cho told me. "I’m so angry I can’t even cry."
He told me, as his face went red, that "going back to normal is impossible. We'll keep resisting".
“Justice is dead, freedom is dead," an elderly woman told us, shouting and in tears.
This is a critical moment in one of South Korea’s worst political upheavals in decades, unleashed by Yoon’s short lived declaration of martia law in December. It was a gamble that backfired and he paid for it with his presidency.
Even though the crowd is thinning. there’s still a heavy police presence here outside the presidential residence. Yoon is said to be inside but he will have to vacate at some point as the country looks to elect a new president within 60 days.
The constitutional court's decision, though final, does not end this political crisis. South Korea is a country still deeply polarized.
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