As South Korea's president since mid-2025, Lee Jae-myung holds constitutional immunity under Article 84 that shields sitting leaders from most criminal prosecution except for insurrection or treason through his term ending in 2030. This protection has prompted courts to suspend all ongoing trials on prior charges including election-law violations, Daejang-dong development allegations, and claims of improper remittances to North Korea. The ruling Democratic Party has advanced special-counsel legislation that could allow cancellation of indictments if evidence of procedural misconduct emerges, while opposition efforts to pursue impeachment or new warrants have gained little procedural traction. These institutional barriers and the absence of qualifying recent events underpin trader consensus that arrest before 2027 remains unlikely.