Former President Yoon Suk Yeol's appellate trial on obstruction of justice and other charges will begin next week, legal sources said Wednesday. The first hearing has been scheduled for 2 p.m. next Wednesday at the Seoul High Court, with proceedings led by Criminal Division 1 — one of two divisions recently designated to handle cases related to charges of insurrection, treason and rebellion. Yoon was sentenced by a lower court last month to five years in prison on charges of obstructing investigators' attempt to detain him last year following his short-lived imposition of martial law in December 2024. He was also found guilty of violating the rights of Cabinet members who were not called to a meeting to review his martial law plan, and drafting and later destroying a revised proclamation after the decree was lifted. The former president is standing a total of eight trials in connection with the martial law attempt, his wife's alleged corruption and the 2023 death of a Marine. In one of them, he was sentenced to life imprisonment last week for leading an insurrection through his declarat