Conservative Yoon wins tight South Korean presidential race

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The opposition conservative Yoon Suk-yeol won South Korea’s presidential election early Thursday, propelling a political novice and avowed anti-feminist to the helm of Asia’s fourth largest economy. After a bitter, hard-fought election campaign Yoon, formerly a top prosecutor who has never held elected office, was declared winner as rival Lee Jae-myung from the incumbent Democratic Party conceded defeat. “This is a victory of the great South Korean people,” Yoon told cheering supporters, who were chanting his […]