{"id":71790,"date":"2025-05-14T14:22:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T05:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/14\/after-chaos-of-the-yoon-era-south-korea-prepares-to-pick-a-new-president-ntwnfb"},"modified":"2025-05-14T14:22:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T05:22:24","slug":"after-chaos-of-the-yoon-era-south-korea-prepares-to-pick-a-new-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71790","title":{"rendered":"After chaos of the Yoon era, South Korea prepares to pick a new president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Koreans hope politics can return to a focus on record high youth unemployment and a cost of living crisis after impeachment drama<\/p>\n<p>After the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/06\/k-pop-and-autocrats-jolt-to-democracy-lays-bare-south-korea-two-sides\">unprecedented turmoil<\/a> of the past six months, South Koreans could be forgiven for breathing a collective sigh of relief that the political focus has shifted from an impeachment crisis to economic policy ahead of next month\u2019s presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>The economy is expected to dominate the campaign to elect a new president on 3 June, after the impeachment of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/yoon-suk-yeol\">Yoon Suk Yeol<\/a>, whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/03\/south-koreas-president-lifts-martial-law-in-the-face-of-united-opposition\">declaration of martial law<\/a> in December triggered the South\u2019s most serious political crisis for decades.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/14\/after-chaos-of-the-yoon-era-south-korea-prepares-to-pick-a-new-president-ntwnfb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Koreans hope politics can return to a focus on record high youth unemployment and a cost of living crisis after impeachment dramaAfter the unprecedented turmoil of the past six months, South Koreans could be forgiven for breathing a collective sigh of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"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":[41,222,42,3218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-south-korea","category-world-news","category-yoon-suk-yeol"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71790","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\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71791,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71790\/revisions\/71791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}