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What South Korea’s new president means for Australia
For the past five years, Seoul has been missing in action from efforts to buttress the rules-based order. Yoon Seok-youl has promised a more proactive foreign policy.
Gordon FlakeContributorThe presidential election in South Korea was close, with the two leading candidates separated by about 250,000 votes from more than 32 million ballots. The tiny margin meant the results were not known until the following morning.
Progressive Power Party candidate and former prosecutor Yoon Seok-youl claimed victory over Lee Jae-myung, the self-styled “Korean Bernie Sanders of the ruling Democratic Party. The result marks a transition in the Blue House from the progressive to the conservative side of politics.
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