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June 7, 2025

Andrew Campbell 

It has been forecast that Lee Jae-myung, a 60-year-old liberal candidate, will win South Korea's early presidential election. On June 3, lawmakers from the Democratic Party applauded when a joint exit poll predicted that its liberal nominee, Lee Jae-myung, would win the South Korean presidential election.

KBS, MBC, and SBS, the three main TV networks in South Korea, projected that Lee would receive 51.7% of the vote in the election on June 3. Kim Moon Soo, a conservative, was behind Lee with 39.3%. At a gathering of conservative members of the People Power Party, however, there were fewer signs of celebration.

Then, because of his brief imposition of martial law, conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol was ousted. Months of political chaos and divisive protests were brought on by Yoon's disastrous attempt to impose martial law. After Yoon's martial law fiasco, pre-election polls also indicated that the people were deeply frustrated with the conservatives.