section_path: Constitutional Court trial/Proceedings/April
section_name: April
paragraph_text: April
  
  On 1 April, the Constitutional Court announced that it would issue its verdict regarding Yoon's impeachment at 11:00 KST on 4 April. In response, multiple venues and events scheduled in Seoul on the said date were closed, cancelled or postponed. Police also imposed a "vacuum zone" and sealed off the area within a 150-meter radius around the Constitutional Court with police buses. About 96,370 people applied for 20 available spectator seats to attend the verdict at the court, making it the highest number of applicants to try and attend an impeachment proceeding in South Korea. Yoon declined to attend the reading of the court's verdict.
  
  On the day before the verdict (3 April), 14,000 police officers were deployed, with Level 2 emergency response status being issued. City buses were diverted, and additional police were sent to major political sites. On the day of the ruling, the emergency status was raised to level 1, allowing for 100% of the police to be deployed.