An early presidential election was held in South Korea on 9 May 2017. The elections were conducted in a single round, on a first-past-the-post basis. Originally scheduled for 20 December 2017, the ele
President Moon Jae In
Yoo Seong min in Gangneung
Sim Sang jung taking a commemorative photo with the Speaker of the National Assembly
The acting incumbent in 2017, Hwang Kyo-ahn. His term expired on May 10.
Moon Jae-in
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Moon Jae-in is a South Korean politician and lawyer who served as the 12th president of South Korea from 2017 to 2022. A member of the Democratic Party of Korea, he was the party's leader from 2015 to
2017 South Korean presidential election
…president Hwang announced he would not run for a term in his own right. Opinion polling before April consistently placed the Democratic Party's candidate, Moon Jae-in, runner-up in the 2012 election, as the front-runner. Second place in the opinion polls was initially held by former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon…
Moon Jae in 2017
Moon at his first press conference as president in 2017
Moon meets with Russian president Vladimir Putin at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia, September 6, 2017