Source: USA Today
“South Koreans began turning out in record numbers for early voting on Thursday in the country’s snap presidential polls set to take place next week, election commission data showed, as both of the leading candidates cast their ballots. The June 3 election comes after months of political turmoil and a power vacuum following the botched attempt by former leader Yoon Suk Yeol to impose martial law. The liberal Democratic Party’s candidate Lee Jae-myung, the frontrunner in the polls before a blackout period banning opinion polls began on Wednesday, cast his ballot in Seoul. … Some 3,107,164 people, or 7.00% of total eligible voters, had voted as of around 11 a.m. (0200 GMT), according to National Election Commission data, the highest turnout for the equivalent period in a presidential poll and compared with 5.38% in the 2022 vote.” (05/29/25)