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4 days ago | 
bloomberg.com | Soo-hyang Choi
Lee Jae-myung(Bloomberg) -- South Koreans are set to finally choose a new president after the nation’s worst constitutional crisis in decades. The June 3 election to replace ousted conservative leader Yoon Suk Yeol offers to be a potential turning point that either brings stability to the political realm and markets after months of chaos or deepens painful divisions within the nation. Voters have been eager to have their say.
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5 days ago | 
bloomberg.com | Soo-hyang Choi
Lee Jae-myung arrives for a campaign event in Incheon. (Bloomberg) -- Lee Jae-myung is still the frontrunner in South Korea’s presidential race, but what once looked like a landslide victory has turned into a much closer contest. Just a few weeks ago, the left-leaning opposition candidate appeared almost certain to win, after the chaotic downfall of conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol, who was impeached and ousted from office following a failed attempt to impose martial law.
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1 week ago | 
bloomberg.com | Soo-hyang Choi
Lee Jae-myung arrives for a campaign event in Incheon, South Korea, on May 21. (Bloomberg) -- South Korea’s presidential frontrunner Lee Jae-myung increased his lead over ruling party nominee Kim Moon-soo, according to the latest opinion poll, another sign that he is well placed to triumph in next week’s election if the conservative vote remains split.
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1 week ago | 
bloomberg.com | Alastair Gale |Soo-hyang Choi
Lee Jae-myung speaks at a campaign event in Uijeongbu on May 20. (Bloomberg) -- A win for the left-of-center frontrunner in South Korea’s presidential election would likely herald more caution by Seoul over taking sides in US-China rivalry, a new effort to draw North Korea into dialogue and the potential for tension with Japan.
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1 week ago | 
bloomberg.com | Soo-hyang Choi
Election banners displayed in Seoul. (Bloomberg) -- South Koreans are set to finally choose a new president after the nation’s worst constitutional crisis in decades. The June 3 election to replace ousted conservative leader Yoon Suk Yeol offers to be a potential turning point that either brings stability to the political realm and markets after months of chaos or deepens painful divisions within the nation.
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1 week ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Soo-hyang Choi
South Koreans are set to finally choose a new president after the nation’s worst constitutional crisis in decades. The June 3 election to replace ousted conservative leader Yoon Suk Yeol offers to be a potential turning point that either brings stability to the political realm and markets after months of chaos or deepens painful divisions within the nation.
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2 weeks ago | 
thederrick.com | Shinhye Kang |Soo-hyang Choi
South Korean presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung saw his lead in the election campaign narrow sharply in the latest opinion poll released Friday as the conservative ruling party’s Kim Moon-soo made up ground after their first TV debate. The opposition Democratic Party nominee Lee had the backing of about 45% in a Gallup Korea poll conducted between May 20-22, a drop of 6 percentage points compared with the previous week.
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2 weeks ago | 
kdhnews.com | Shinhye Kang |Soo-hyang Choi
South Korean presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung saw his lead in the election campaign narrow sharply in the latest opinion poll released Friday as the conservative ruling party's Kim Moon-soo made up ground after their first TV debate. The opposition Democratic Party nominee Lee had the backing of about 45% in a Gallup Korea poll conducted between May 20-22, a drop of 6 percentage points compared with the previous week.
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2 weeks ago | 
miamiherald.com | Shinhye Kang |Soo-hyang Choi
South Korean presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung saw his lead in the election campaign narrow sharply in the latest opinion poll released Friday as the conservative ruling party's Kim Moon-soo made up ground after their first TV debate. The opposition Democratic Party nominee Lee had the backing of about 45% in a Gallup Korea poll conducted between May 20-22, a drop of 6 percentage points compared with the previous week.
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2 weeks ago | 
leadertelegram.com | Shinhye Kang |Soo-hyang Choi
South Korean presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung saw his lead in the election campaign narrow sharply in the latest opinion poll released Friday as the conservative ruling party’s Kim Moon-soo made up ground after their first TV debate. The opposition Democratic Party nominee Lee had the backing of about 45% in a Gallup Korea poll conducted between May 20-22, a drop of 6 percentage points compared with the previous week.
