South Korea’s Lee Jae-myung celebrates election victory with supporters
South Korea's liberal presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung, who won Tuesday's snap election, said on Wednesday he would not forget the duty of a president to unite the people.
Preliminary vote tallies and exit polls by the country's major broadcasters had Lee defeating Kim by comfortable margins.
Lee's victory stands to usher in a political sea change in Asia's fourth-largest economy, after the backlash against the martial law brought down Yoon Suk Yeol, the conservative outsider who narrowly beat Lee in the 2022 election.
