{"id":72080,"date":"2025-06-03T07:16:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T22:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/03\/south-korea-goes-to-the-polls-to-elect-new-president-after-yoon-crisis"},"modified":"2025-06-03T07:16:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T22:16:50","slug":"south-korea-goes-to-the-polls-to-elect-new-president-after-yoon-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72080","title":{"rendered":"South Korea goes to the polls to elect new president after Yoon crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Election pitting liberal Lee Jae-myung against conservative candidate Kim Moon Soo comes after months of chaos following Yoon Suk Yeol\u2019s short-lived imposition of martial law<\/p>\n<p>Millions of South Koreans are voting for a new president in a<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\"> snap election<\/a> triggered by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/04\/south-korea-president-yoon-suk-yeol-impeachment-verdict-results-removal\">impeachment<\/a> of Yoon Suk Yeol, a conservative who now faces an explosive trial on rebellion charges over his short-lived imposition of martial law in December.<\/p>\n<p>Pre-election surveys suggested Yoon\u2019s liberal arch-rival, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/02\/as-south-korea-heads-to-the-polls-can-lee-jae-myung-bring-the-country-back-from-the-brink\">Lee Jae-myung<\/a>, appeared headed for an easy win, riding on deep public frustration over the conservatives in the wake of Yoon\u2019s martial law debacle.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/03\/south-korea-goes-to-the-polls-to-elect-new-president-after-yoon-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Election pitting liberal Lee Jae-myung against conservative candidate Kim Moon Soo comes after months of chaos following Yoon Suk Yeol\u2019s short-lived imposition of martial lawMillions of South Koreans are voting for a new president in a snap election tr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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-72080","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\/72080","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72086,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72080\/revisions\/72086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}