As president of South Korea since June 2025, Lee Jae-myung holds constitutional immunity under Article 84 that bars criminal prosecution or arrest except in cases of insurrection or treason through the end of his term in 2030. Courts have indefinitely postponed all pending trials on prior charges involving election law violations, bribery, and alleged remittances to North Korea. The ruling Democratic Party has advanced special counsel legislation that could potentially cancel those indictments, while opposition parties criticize judicial reform efforts and call for investigations into the president. No recent diplomatic events, legislative votes, or opposition actions have triggered the narrow exceptions to immunity, sustaining trader consensus that arrest before 2027 remains unlikely.