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Yoon Suk Yeol has become South Korea's first sitting president to be arrested after investigators today scaled barricades and cut through barbed wire to take him into custody.

This is as a team of investigators arrived at his residence in central Seoul, armed with ladders to climb over buses blocking its entrance and bolt croppers to cut through the barbed wire.

Yoon is being investigated on charges of insurrection for a failed martial law order on 3 December that plunged the country into turmoil.

He has also been impeached by parliament and suspended from office, but will not be removed from his position until the Constitutional Court rules on his impeachment.

Yoon's dramatic arrest, however, brings to an end a weeks-long standoff between investigators and his presidential security team.

Other officers in the arrest team, which numbered around 1,000, scaled walls and hiked up nearby trails to reach the presidential residence.