Polls show the candidate from South Korea’s main left-wing opposition party emerging as the clear favourite in next month’s presidential election, a snap vote that many hope will draw a line under one of the most tumultuous political crises in the history of the country.
Democratic Party candidate Lee Jae Myung, 61, enjoyed the support of 49 per cent of the public in the latest Gallup Korea poll, 14 percentage points ahead of his main conservative rival Kim Moon Soo of the People Power Party on 35 per cent.
