By all appearances, Korea's new president will be another conservative. Yoon Seok-yeol is said to have won, although I understand the tallying is not yet done, and the voting was apparently very close (something like 48% to 47%). South Korea has been dealing with its own version of the voter-fraud nonsense dogging the US electoral process, and I imagine the backers of the liberal candidate, Lee Jae-myeong, will all be crying foul. Korea is becoming as polarized as the US, although I'm not sure the fault lines in Korea run quite as deeply as they do in the States. Don't ask me about Korean politics; I don't claim to understand any of it.
Yoon is making the usual promises about striving for national unity, but Koreans don't generally unify unless it's to reject foreign criticism. I expect Business As Usual to be the order of the day as Yoon eventually takes the reins.
ADDENDUM: ROK Drop: Lee Jae-myeong concedes the election.
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