{"id":71461,"date":"2025-05-03T18:09:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T09:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/03\/south-koreas-conservatives-pick-hardline-kim-moon-soo-as-presidential-candidate"},"modified":"2025-05-03T18:09:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T09:09:34","slug":"south-koreas-conservatives-pick-hardline-kim-moon-soo-as-presidential-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71461","title":{"rendered":"South Korea\u2019s conservatives pick hardline Kim Moon-soo as presidential candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People Power party trail in polls in election called after President Yoon Suk Yeol was removed for trying to impose martial law<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s conservative People Power party has picked former labour minister Kim Moon-soo as its candidate for the 3 June presidential election, which was called after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/04\/south-korea-president-yoon-suk-yeol-impeachment-verdict-results-removal\">the removal of Yoon Suk Yeol<\/a> over his failed attempt to impose martial law.<\/p>\n<p>Kim will face the liberal Democratic party\u2019s candidate, Lee Jae-myung, who has led each of the declared conservative candidates by large double-digit margins in polls.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/03\/south-koreas-conservatives-pick-hardline-kim-moon-soo-as-presidential-candidate\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People Power party trail in polls in election called after President Yoon Suk Yeol was removed for trying to impose martial lawSouth Korea\u2019s conservative People Power party has picked former labour minister Kim Moon-soo as its candidate for the 3 June &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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-71461","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\/71461","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71462,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71461\/revisions\/71462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}