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Opposition win portends policy gridlock in Seoul

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SOUTH KOREA

The ruling conservative People Power Party (PPP) will take scant consolation from avoiding an opposition supermajority, as it needed a win to take control of the assembly and…

Seoul’s next leader will be a non-centrist outsider

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SOUTH KOREA

Neither is from their party’s mainstream, and has never been elected as a lawmaker. The conservative, Yoon Seok-youl, is a former prosecutor general. The liberal, Lee Jae-myung…

South Korean politics will be less certain

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SOUTH KOREA

Meanwhile, the leader of the opposition and a ruling party lawmaker have been hospitalised after serious assaults (in the former case, politically motivated). There are also…

South Korea’s ruling party is at risk of poll defeat

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SOUTH KOREA

Yoon’s gaffes and misjudgements have cost him support ahead of the polls, although turnout and the impact of third parties remain possible swing factors.

Yoon's tough talk carries risks for South Korea

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SOUTH KOREA

The next day, he nominated a new unification minister, Kim Yung-ho, who has in the past called for the overthrow of North Korea's leader.

Opposition win will frustrate South Korean government

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SOUTH KOREA

SOUTH KOREA: Opposition win will frustrate government

Systemic obstacles will thwart reforms in South Korea

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SOUTH KOREA

Domestic politics in South Korea.

Tide turns in favour of South Korea’s conservatives

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SOUTH KOREA

Politics in South Korea.

Purges will backfire on South Korea's new president

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SOUTH KOREA

As under his predecessor, these reforms, especially of the police, strike critics as partisan power plays rather than neutral or necessary restructuring. Yoon's approval ratings…