{"id":42312,"date":"2022-03-10T04:56:51","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T19:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/09\/yoon-suk-yeol-elected-president-south-korea"},"modified":"2022-03-10T04:56:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T19:56:51","slug":"yoon-suk-yeol-wins-south-korean-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42312","title":{"rendered":"Yoon Suk-yeol wins South Korean presidential election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Party\u2019s Lee Jae-myung concedes defeat to People Power Party rival with 98% of ballots counted<\/p>\n<p>Yoon Suk-yeol, a conservative former prosecutor, has declared victory in South Korea\u2019s presidential election on Thursday after his liberal rival conceded defeat following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/09\/south-korea-presidential-election-yoon-suk-yeol-lee-jae-myung\">a bitter battle in the politically divided nation.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yoon, from the main opposition People Power Party, edged out the ruling Democratic Party\u2019s Lee Jae-myung with 48.6% of the vote to 47.8%, with more than 98% of the ballots counted as of 4.20am on Thursday (7.20pm on Wednesday GMT).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/09\/yoon-suk-yeol-elected-president-south-korea\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Party\u2019s Lee Jae-myung concedes defeat to People Power Party rival with 98% of ballots countedYoon Suk-yeol, a conservative former prosecutor, has declared victory in South Korea\u2019s presidential election on Thursday after his liberal rival con&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":972,"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-42312","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\/42312","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\/972"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42317,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42312\/revisions\/42317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}