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South Korea held a snap presidential election in June 2025 after months of political turmoil following a declaration of martial law.
Lee Jae-myung, the liberal opposition candidate, won South Korea's June 2025 snap election with about 49% of the vote, a contest triggered by the political chaos following President Yoon Suk-yeol's brief declaration of martial law in December 2024. Because Yoon had already been impeached and formally removed from office, Lee was inaugurated immediately the day after the vote, skipping the usual transition period new South Korean presidents typically get.
Yoon Suk-yeol was the president whose removal triggered this election in the first place, not its winner, and Kim Moon-soo ran as the conservative candidate but lost to Lee.
South Korea's martial law crisis and rapid presidential turnover was one of the most dramatic democratic stress-tests any developed democracy faced in recent years, testing the country's institutions in real time.
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