Liberal Lee forecast to win in South Korean elections

LEE PROJECTED TO OBTAIN 51.7% OF VOTES, BEATING RIVAL KIM MOON SOO

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Liberal candidate Lee Jae-myung is forecast to win South Korea's snap presidential election, a joint exit poll yesterday showed, two months after his archrival and then conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol was removed from office over his short-lived imposition of martial law.

The exit poll by South Korea's three major TV stations KBS, MBC and SBS showed Lee projected to obtain 51.7 per cent of the total votes cast, beating main conservative candidate Kim Moon Soo on 39.3 per cent.