Seoul: Cases, scams, armed soldiers and a knife-run attackers all failed to reach the South Korea’s presidential post from Lee J-Mung’s sweatshop worker.After losing to a razor-thunder margin in 2022, the Democratic party candidates have returned to the ballot, and now he is ready to change the political rival, which he was playing an important role in ignoring.Opponents rejected 60 -year -old Lee for their populist style.But his ravine-rich personal story distinguishes him from many political aristocrats of South Korea.After leaving school to work in a factory to support his family, he suffered an elbow injury in an industrial accident.He earned a scholarship to study the law and passed a bar to become a lawyer. Lee has used this original story to cultivate a loyal support base and frame himself as to understand the struggles of the underprivileged.“You can worry about the people outside the shiver in the cold while sitting in your warm living room,” Lee told AFP in an interview of 2022.“But you can never understand their pain.”Polls and his closest challenger, Conservative Kim Moon-Su suggested the difference between the People’s party party, compressed in recent times, showing a difference of some solo.But Lee has continuously maintained his lead as his brief declaration of martial law in December was run by former President Yun Suk Yeol’s impeachment.
Live-streaming a crisis
South Korea has experienced a leadership vacuum as the MPs suspended the armed soldiers to deploy in Parliament, which was in their unsuccessful attempt to suspend civil rule.During the stressful minutes after that step, Lee stroked his henish scuffle on the perimeter fence as he and other MPs raced to vote for Marshall Law Decree.“It was a race against time,” he recalled in an interview with AFP.Lee served as the mayor of Sangam in the south of Seoul for the first eight years.In that role, he helped closure the country’s largest dog meat market that was discontinued – ending a business that included 80,000 canine a year.He later served as the Governor of Gyonggi province, the most populous region of the country around the capital for more than three years.Lee lost his 2022 dialect to the presidency by one of the smallest margin in South Korean history.In 2024, he was stabbed in the neck by a person presenting as a supporter and rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery.The attacker later confessed that his intention was to prevent him from becoming President to kill Lee.If elected next week, Lee has vowed the target of making the country one of the top three global leaders in the region to promote South Korea’s Artificial Intelligence Industry.He has also called for justifying the people involved in the effort of martial law, promising to “bring rebellion elements for justice”.During his early days in politics, Lee criticized his conflict attacks on political opponents.But his 34-year-old wife Kim Hy-Kung, with whom he shares two children, speaks with “discussion”.In an interview in 2017, he said, “He is someone who comes from the margin from below,” he said in an interview in 2017.“Like how to see a flea, I hope people can understand it and see it in that context.”
Valid trouble
Lee has been instigated by her own legal troubles, including violations of the election law through allegations of corruption related to the development of a real estate and the spread of false information.He has denied any wrongdoing, inspiring the allegations politically inspired.In early May, Seoul’s Supreme Court overturned the lower court of Lee’s lower court on charges of election law and ordered a comeback.But with the election, the Seoul High Court postponed the proceedings until after the June 3 vote.If Lee wins, legal experts say that the proceedings will be suspended due to the President’s immunity, and will resume only after the end of its single five -year term in 2030.Lee’s opponents argue that the allegations are quite serious to disqualify him from running.“With this type of corruption allegations, how can you look for a public office?” In the next week’s vote, his main rival Kim Moon-Su-Su is recently said during a television debate.
