SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Democratic Party (DP) candidate Lee Jae-myung was projected to win the presidential election by a wide margin Tuesday, four polls showed, as vote counting got under way. According to a joint exit poll by broadcasters KBS, MBC and SBS, Lee of the liberal DP was leading conservative People Power [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Democratic Party (DP) floor leader Park Chan-dae said Tuesday that exit polls showing a majority for the party’s presidential candidate, Lee Jae-myung, represented a stern verdict from the people on the “insurrectionist government” of ousted former President Yoon Suk Yeol. Park made the remark shortly after the exit polls [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Democratic Party (DP) candidate Lee Jae-myung will garner around 50 percent of the vote, leading People Power Party candidate Kim Moon-soo by at least 7.5 percentage points, four exit polls showed Tuesday. A JTBC exit poll projected that Lee will garner 50.6 percent of the vote against Kim’s 39.4 [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — As South Korea gears up for its pivotal presidential election on June 3, a colorful array of unconventional polling stations across the country has captured public attention—ranging from wrestling gyms to pizza shops and even wedding halls. While official election law typically designates schools, community centers, and other public [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Police will deploy nearly 30,000 officers to polling stations nationwide this week as part of security measures for the June 3 presidential election, officials said Monday. A total of 28,590 police officers will be stationed across 14,295 polling stations Tuesday, when the nation heads to the polls to elect [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Democratic Party presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung said Monday revitalizing the nation’s sluggish economy and improving people’s livelihoods would be his top priority if he is elected. Lee made the remark during a press conference on his campaign stop in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, stressing that improving people’s livelihoods is currently [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean stocks finished slightly higher Monday, as investors took a wait-and-see posture ahead of the crucial presidential election amid signs of renewed trade tensions between the United States and China. The local currency rose against the U.S. dollar. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) added 1.3 [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Democratic Party (DP) candidate Lee Jae-myung and People Power Party (PPP) candidate Kim Moon-soo made their final sprint to woo swing voters Monday, a day before the presidential election. Lee of the DP, the campaign’s front-runner, kicked off the last day of his campaign in Seoul’s northern ward of [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) — In the final stretch of South Korea’s high-stakes presidential election, a digital manipulation scandal has thrown the race into turmoil, casting doubts on the integrity of online discourse and raising alarms over political interference by a far-right education group. The controversy centers around Rhee Park School, a conservative civic organization [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 15 million voters have cast their ballots in the early voting for the presidential election, according to the National Election Commission (NEC) on Friday, with attention now turning to how the near-record turnout would affect the formal vote next week. The final early-voting turnout was 34.74 percent, [...]