* Published on January 24, 2017
* Moon Jae-In has been elected as the 19th President of the Republic of Korea on May 9, 2017.
With the President Park impeached and currently waiting for trial at the Constitutional Court, the race for the Blue House has become an open battle on both sides of the political domains. The 19th presidential election was scheduled to be held on December 20, 2017, but with President Park’s impeachment by the National Assembly in December last year, various forecasters have predicted that the election will be moved up to somewhere around April or May this year.
The impeachment of President Park, which is just the second time that the President had been impeached by the National Assembly, after former President Roh’s impeachment on May 12, 2004, has led to the first ever possibility for the presidential elections to be held earlier than scheduled since the current Sixth Republic was established in 1987. After 10 years of being in the opposition, the main opposition party The Democratic Party is vying for a reclamation of power to succeed its 10-year rule between 1997 and 2008 which saw two consecutive administrations of former Presidents Kim Dae-Jung and Roh Moo-Hyun.
Je Seung Lee 