SEOUL - Released South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol walked out of the detention center and bowed to supporters after the prosecution's decision not to appeal against a Seoul court's approval of his release, a live broadcast showed Saturday. 

Yoon was expected to be transported to the presidential residence in central Seoul from the Seoul Detention Center in Uiwang, about 20 km south of the capital city.

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The Seoul Central District Court approved the release of the arrested president on Friday, accepting Yoon's request to cancel his arrest that was made by his legal team on Feb 4.

Yoon was apprehended in the presidential office on Jan 15 and was indicted under detention on Jan 26 as a suspected ringleader of insurrection, becoming the country's first sitting president to be arrested and prosecuted.

Prosecutors brought the accusation against Yoon at 6:52 pm local time on Jan 26, but the court said Yoon's arrest period expired at 9:07 am local time of the same day.

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Yoon declared an emergency martial law on the night of Dec 3 last year, but it was revoked by the opposition-led National Assembly hours later.

A motion to impeach Yoon was passed in the National Assembly on Dec 14, and since then the constitutional court has held 11 hearings on Yoon's impeachment with its final verdict widely expected to be delivered next week.