Korea will elect a new president on June 3 to replace the Yun Suk acid withdrew from the office to deploy the state according to the martial law on December 3rd.
The winner will be in charge of managing the political and economic falls of Yun’s movement.
The election is also in the background of long -term challenges such as long -term challenges such as North Korea’s threats and the lowest birth rate in the world.
The following is a method of about 55 million East Asian countries to choose a new leader for the next five years.
Why is Korea holding presidential elections?
Yun had to serve as president by 2027, but his term ended in numbers.
He declared martial arts on December 3 to shock the state by quoting “anti -national forces” and North Korea’s threats. But soon it became clear that he was triggered by his political matters.
A week later, he was impeached by Congress. On April 4, the Constitutional Court supported impeachment and permanently eliminated him and set a stage for the presidential election within 60 days according to the law.
For five months after Yoon’s martial law, the country has three acting presidents, and most recently, LEE JU-HO, the Minister of Labor, who played a role one month before the election.
President Lee replaced a prime minister. Finance Minister Choi Sang -sa represented the president before reinstatement in March.
What is a big problem in Korean elections?
Yun’s martial law suffered deep political divisions between Yun’s supporters, his conservative power party (PPP) and opposition leader Lee Jae-Myung and the Liberal Democratic Party.
In addition, US President Donald Trump has shaken the public’s trust in the economy with a 25 percent tariff on US trading partners.
Then the new president will carry out an immediate task to solve these concerns.
But there are continuous challenges such as relationships with North Korea. The start of 2025 was relatively unhappy, but in the previous year, the tension increased when both sides sent a balloon and drone to carry propaganda materials.
With a wider scale, the new leader must balance the relationship between Beijing, the largest trade partner and the most important security alliance, Washington.
There are also arrests of reduced birth rates in the lowest countries in the world.
In 2024, the average number of babies is expected to be a state of fertility or a lifetime. It is a bit of a tick on the previous year, but it is much lower than the 2.1 required to maintain a 55 million population.
Who can be the next president?
According to a poll, Lee Jae -jin of the Liberal Democratic Party was the leader of six candidates, followed by Kim Mun -soo, a conservative PPP candidate.
In 2022, Lee, who lost his luster with a thin margin, is welcomed by his supporters as a working class hero. He worked at a factory before he became a human rights lawyer and a politician. He promised to establish a “real republic of Korea” with a job and a fair society.
Former Minister of Labor, Kim, placed himself as an economic president, promising to create a business -friendly environment and job creation.
Other candidates are Lee’s LEE JUN-SEOK, Democratic Labor Party’s Kwon Young-Kuk and both independence-Hwang Kyo, and Song Jin-ho.
No woman runs for the first time in 18 years. The first woman who ran for this country was a flooder in 1987, but withdrew before voting. The 2012 elections saw four female candidates standing.
When is the election day and when the results are announced?
The election is scheduled for June 3 and the voting grounds will be held at 20:00 at the local time (22:00 GMT). Overseas Koreans were able to vote early from May 20 to 25.
The results are expected to come after the survey, and the winner will be known early the next day.
When Yun defeated Lee in 2022, he was proclaimed at 04:40 after 9 hours after the voting deadline or at 04:40 after the election.
It was the closest presidential contest in this country’s history, and Yun won the 0.73% difference.
The new president will be inaugurated immediately, and unlike his predecessors, there will be no advantage of official transition in Yun.
What is the impeachment of former President Yun Suk Acid?
Yun faced a trial for allegations of rebellion from his martial arts declaration.
In January of this year, he became the president of Korea’s first president, after investigators reduced their barricades, cutting their barbed wire, and detained him. He had a technical relationship a few weeks later.
He has recently been indicted separately for abuse of power.
Before the election, Yun quit the party about what the analysts said.
