The Latest Breaking News from Lee Jae Myung

Lee Jae Myung says initiative aimed at promoting ‘popular sovereignty’ and more participatory governance

Reclusive country’s entire internet infrastructure wasn’t showing up on monitoring systems for several hours before it started coming back slowly around midday

President is likely to move his office back to Blue House, which was abandoned by president Yoon Suk Yeol

New satellite imagery shows Pyongyang has managed to upright damaged destroyer

ANALYSIS: Lee Jae Myung takes on the leadership of South Korea with one of the strongest public mandates in decades – but also facing the daunting task of renegotiating Seoul’s relationship with the US, its most important ally. Shweta Sharma reports

Victory heralds change for Asia’s fourth-largest economy after snap election triggered by impeachment

Exit poll results are based on surveys of about 100,000 voters at 325 polling stations

Polls favour liberal Lee Jae Myung to win

What you need to know as voters go to the polls

Flaunting a red jacket with number 2 on it led to speculation Karina of aespa was subtly endorsing one of South Korea’s presidential candidates

More than 6m of 44m eligible voters turned out on first day of early voting to choose Yoon Suk Yeol’s successor