Yoon elected S. Korea president after remarkably close race
South Korean president-elect Yoon Suk-yeol (Yonhap photo) SEOUL - Opposition candidate Yoon Suk-yeol was elected South Korea's next president Thursday after an unbelievably close race that underlined deep divisions along regional, generational and gender lines, and hands him a daunting task to narrow those chasms. With all the votes counted, Yoon of the conservative People Power Party (PPP) had 48.56 percent of the vote and Lee Jae-myung of the liberal Democratic Party (DP) took 47.83 percent, according to the National Election Commission. The 0.73 percentage-point gap makes this year'...
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