{"id":5323,"date":"2025-05-12T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T08:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=5323"},"modified":"2025-05-12T08:00:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T08:00:35","slug":"seven-candidates-are-vying-for-the-presidency-of-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=5323","title":{"rendered":"Seven candidates are vying for the presidency of South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5324\" title=\"6634c9d6e69a400cb4e8fb983c765414\" src=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/6634c9d6e69a400cb4e8fb983c765414.png\" alt=\"6634c9d6e69a400cb4e8fb983c765414\" width=\"1126\" height=\"674\" srcset=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/6634c9d6e69a400cb4e8fb983c765414.png 1126w, http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/6634c9d6e69a400cb4e8fb983c765414-300x180.png 300w, http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/6634c9d6e69a400cb4e8fb983c765414-1024x613.png 1024w, http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/6634c9d6e69a400cb4e8fb983c765414-768x460.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1126px) 100vw, 1126px\" \/><br \/>\nAccording to a report by Yonhap News Agency on the 11th, in order to select candidates for the 21st presidential election, South Korea&#8217;s ruling party, the National Strength Party, conducted a poll for all party members, mr Kim Moon-soo and Mr Han Duk-soo, who had previously won the party&#8217;s primary, staged a dramatic reversal of fortunes &#8212; Mr Kim, whose candidacy had once been disqualified and was in grave danger, came back to life on the 11th, han Duk-soo, the presumptive no. 2 candidate, failed to win the election just eight days after announcing his candidacy. On the same day, Han Duk-soo announced his withdrawal from the presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Yonhap news agency said Kim Moon-soo formally registered with the Central Election Management Commission as the National Strength Party&#8217;s presidential candidate on the morning of November 11. After completing his registration, Kim Moon-soo met Han Duk-soo at party headquarters. \u201cI am behind Mr Han Duk-soo in every respect,\u201d Mr Kim Moon-soo said. \u201cHe has led the country as Prime Minister for a long time and has managed to overcome the national crisis as acting president. I want to learn from him.\u201d Han Duk-soo congratulated Kim Moon-soo, he said he would\u201cDo everything in my power\u201d to help Kim Moon-soo win the election. Former South Korean president Yoon Seok-yueh also congratulated Kim Moon-soo Jong-eun on being confirmed as the final candidate in a post on social media platform Facebook on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>After Kim Moon-soo Jong-eun completes his registration, seven people will eventually run in the 21st presidential election, the others are Lee Jae-myung, the Democratic Party candidate; Lee Jun-sik, the Reform New Party candidate; Human Rights UK, the Democratic Labor Party Party candidate; Chu Wa, the Liberal Unionist Party Party candidate; song zhen-ho, the non-partisan candidate; and Hwang Kyo-ahn, the non-partisan candidate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a report by Yonhap News Agency on the 11th, in order to select candidates for the 21st presidential election, South Korea&#8217;s ruling party, the National Strength Party, conducted&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268,267],"tags":[2312,1741,2311],"views":358,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5323"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5325,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5323\/revisions\/5325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}