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Hyonhee Shin and Josh Smith

South Korean opposition candidate Yoon elected president

FILE PHOTO: Yoon Suk-yeol, the presidential election candidate of South Korea's main opposition People Power Party (PPP), gestures during his election campaign rally in Seoul, South Korea March 8, 2022. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji/FIle photo

South Korea's opposition presidential candidate Yoon Suk-yeol was projected to win Wednesday's election, broadcaster KBS said, with nearly 90% of votes counted, a race that will shape Asia's fourth-largest economy for the next five years.

Conservative Yoon, with 48.6%, was slightly ahead of liberal Lee Jae-myung on 47.8%, with more than 89% of the ballots counted as of 2.30 a.m. on Thursday (1730 GMT Wednesday).

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