PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS KICK OFF IN SOUTH KOREA- With extra focus on the economy
Contenders for South Korea’s presidency kicked off their campaigns today, vowing to unify a deeply polarised society and spur economic growth while navigating trade negotiations with the United States.
Surrounded by a huge crowd of supporters dressed in blue, frontrunner Lee Jae-myung from the liberal Democratic Party rallied in the centre of the capital, Seoul.
Kim Moon-soo, Lee’s conservative rival from the People Power Party, began his campaign at a public wholesale market in the South Korean capital.
Asia’s fourth-largest economy will hold a snap presidential election on June 3 to choose Yoon Suk Yeol’s successor after the conservative leader was ousted over his shock martial law order in December last year that plunged the country into a political crisis.
