{"id":42306,"date":"2022-03-09T22:31:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T13:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/09\/south-korea-presidential-election-yoon-suk-yeol-lee-jae-myung"},"modified":"2022-03-09T22:31:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T13:31:45","slug":"south-korea-election-contenders-neck-and-neck-according-to-exit-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42306","title":{"rendered":"South Korea election contenders neck and neck, according to exit polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contest between People Power party candidate Yoon Suk-yeol and Democratic party rival Lee Jae-myung too close to call<\/p>\n<p>Exit polls in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/south-korea\">South Korea<\/a> showed the two main contenders in the presidential election neck and neck, after a campaign overshadowed by personal attacks and the worst coronavirus wave of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The People Power party\u2019s candidate, Yoon Suk-yeol, a conservative who supports a tougher stance on North Korea, has 48.4% of the vote, according to a joint exit poll by three TV networks, with his Democratic party opponent, Lee Jae-myung, on 47.8%.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/09\/south-korea-presidential-election-yoon-suk-yeol-lee-jae-myung\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contest between People Power party candidate Yoon Suk-yeol and Democratic party rival Lee Jae-myung too close to callExit polls in South Korea showed the two main contenders in the presidential election neck and neck, after a campaign overshadowed by p&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42314,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42306\/revisions\/42314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}