Election pitting liberal Lee Jae-myung against conservative candidate Kim Moon Soo comes after months of chaos following Yoon Suk Yeol’s short-lived imposition of martial law
South Koreans are voting for a new president in a snap election triggered by a brief period of martial law imposed by the now-impeached former leader Yoon Suk Yeol.
Polls suggested that Yoon’s liberal arch-rival, Lee Jae-myung, was heading for a comfortable victory in what Lee has described as “judgment day” for Asia’s fourth-biggest economy.
