Yoon, who faces charges of insurrection over his short-lived effort to impose martial law last month, said he would comply with investigators to avoid "bloodshed".
President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea is set to receive an annual pay raise despite being actively suspended after placing the country under martial law.
The black boxes of Jeju Air flight 7C 2216 stopped recording minutes before the crash that killed 179 people.
South Korean investigators trying to arrest suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol have asked for an extension to the warrant that expires Monday, with the embattled leader holed up in his residence.
South Korea is a key security ally for Washington but the country has been wracked by a crisis sparked by President Yoon Suk Yeol's failed martial law decree on December 3.
Yoon Suk Yeol, who has already been suspended from duty by lawmakers, would become the first sitting president in South Korean history to be arrested if the warrant is carried out.
US air safety officials and staff from the beleaguered aircraft maker Boeing were arriving to join investigators probing the worst air disaster on South Korean soil, which officials initially blamed on a collision with birds.
The crashes occurred in South Korea, Canada and Norway between Saturday night and Sunday morning
A text message sent by a passenger who died in South Korea's worst domestic aviation disaster on Sunday was revealed.
A shocking video shows the moment a Boeing aircraft traveling from Thailand to South Korea crashed into a concrete wall upon landing, killing 179.
A Jeju Air plane carrying 181 people from Bangkok to South Korea crashed on arrival Sunday.
Montenegro has approved the extradition of a South Korean crypto mogul behind the $40 billion Terraform Labs collapse.
Han Duck-soo assumed the office after President Yoon Suk Yeol was impeached on Dec. 14 after declaring martial law
Han Duck-soo took over as acting president from President Yoon Suk Yeol, who was suspended following a parliamentary vote over his move to impose martial law on December 3.
The National Assembly voted 204-85 to impeach Yoon Suk Yeol for 'insurrectionary acts undermining the constitutional order'
Yoon's shock bid to impose South Korea's first martial law in over four decades plunged the country into the deepest turmoil in its modern democratic history and caught its close allies around the world off guard.
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's brief imposition of martial law marks a new warning for the worldwide fragility of democracy, even in a country hailed as a model of political transformation.
Protesters attempted to storm the South Korean Parliament after President Yoon Suk Yeol declared emergency martial law on Tuesday.
Starbucks has just opened a coffee shop on an observation tower near one of the world's most heavily armed borders: the border between North and South Korea.
The country had 1,012 robots per 10,000 employees, topping the global list, according to a new survey.
The president of South Korea began practicing golf again for the first time in eight years to eventually play with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.
They're invoking the '4B' movement that calls for an end to sex with men, dating, marriage and childbirth
