About 44 million South Koreans headed to polls to elect mayors and provincial governors on Wednesday, in races seen as an early test for new President Yoon Suk-yeol and his drive for fuelling an economic recovery and tackling inequality.
Yoon took office last month after winning an unprecedentedly tight presidential election by a margin of just 0.7% in March, evidence of the deepening political, generational and gender divide that has frayed Asia's fourth-largest economy.
