![]() ![]() If – as looks likely – Lee’s Teflon skin deflects the allegations, he may bring just the right mix of personality and policies to win the presidency next year. There have been long-simmering allegations that Lee passed on privileged information to a crony, enabling the amassing of massive profits in Seongnam when the presidential candidate was mayor of that city, south of Seoul, in 2014. None other than President Moon ordered a prosecution probe into a very South Korean scandal. Then, yet another challenge emerged on Tuesday. The governor was confirmed as the DPs candidate by Song Young-gil, the party chairman, on Monday. The other Lee appealed the results.īut it was to no avail. Not untypically for the Gyeonggi province governor, who operates within a swirl of near-constant strife, his win was not without controversy. Lee, a former human rights lawyer and the current governor of Gyeonggi – the prosperous province surrounding the capital, Seoul – won with 50.29% of all votes cast in primaries, leaving former journalist and ex-prime minister Lee Nak-yon (no relation) with 39.14%.
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