RT International By Konstantin Asmolov, a leading researcher at the Center for Korean Studies at the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences
On June 3, 2025, a snap presidential election was held in the Republic of Korea in which Democratic candidate Lee Jae-myung won with over 49% of the vote.
The election followed an attempt on December 3, 2024 to impose martial law in the country, which led the Constitutional Court to unanimously vote for the impeachment of then-President Yoon Suk-yeol. There were several candidates, but the main contest took place between the ruling conservative People Power Party and the opposition Democratic Party.
Democrats’ affairs
Chairman Lee is a striking and controversial figure. During the presidency of the previous Democrat, Moon Jae-in, Lee led an independent faction within the party and was considered an even more leftist populist than Moon. Moon viewed him as a dangerous rival and tried to remove him via a series of criminal cases. Lee managed to fend off these attacks and eventually became the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate in 2022 after all of Moon’s protégés lost the primaries. Although he once called himself the ‘Korean Bernie Sanders’ due to his populist slogans and ideas such as universal basic income, his circle now prefers the term ‘Korean Donald Trump’, as both share a flamboyant style and peculiar reputations…
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