Lee Jae-Myung Wins ROK Presidential Election
It looks like all the opinion polls were correct because Lee Jae-myung won the ROK election by roughly the same amount he had been leading in the polls:
Lee Jae-myung of the Democratic Party of Korea has clinched the presidency, turning the page on six months of relentless political upheaval and a leadership vacuum left by ousted former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s troubled legacy.
The liberal Democratic Party will take power from the conservative People Power Party after a whirlwind 22-day campaign, just three years after the 2022 presidential election. That year, Yoon defeated Lee by the narrowest margin on record—just 0.73 percentage point.
As of 2:30 a.m. Wednesday, with 93.84 percent of the votes counted in Tuesday’s early presidential election, Lee had effectively secured victory with 16,012,324 votes, or 48.77 percent, while Kim trailed with 13,826,777 votes, or 42.11 percent. About 2.18 million ballots remained uncounted at that time.
“I express my respect for the people’s great decision,” Lee said as he left his residence for the party headquarters in Yeouido, after his win was deemed certain by the nation’s major broadcasters just before midnight.
You can read more at the link, but this election was over the minute that the PPP could not get third party candidate Lee Jun-seok to unify with Kim Moon-soo. If they had a combined ticket they had a chance of defeating Lee Jae-myung, but they both chose mutual defeat instead and will now will have to suffer the consequences of handing pretty much all levers of power to the DPK.
Mr. GIKorea.. don’t forget about the election fraud that’s rampant..
Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney’s speech – “Canada’s dependence on America to be the global leader … it’s over”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7siwJNWQQA
If Canada can do it, then South Korea can too. You can’t rely on an unreliable country that starts economic wars on the world and routinely breaks international contracts through social media and at one man’s whim.
And I’m pretty confident that Lee will also take South Korea out of the US-spell – the era of US dominance and South Korea as a junior “partner” is over.
The world is done with the US. Up to this point, South Korea was under the old martial law rightwing rebellion ruling party, who put the US up on a pedestal as a country that could do no wrong, so just give them anything they ask for.
That era is now over in South Korea.
If Trump weaponizes the USFK and tries to use tariffs on South Korea to extort money out of South Korea, Lee is not going to just give in like a stooge. And don’t bet against Lee who has in the past, said that if the US wants to leave South Korea, then it’s their choice that will be respected.
South Korea well and truly fucked.
South Korea well and truly screwed.