SEOUL –
Moon Jae-in (64) is Tuesday, according to a exitpoll the big winner of the presidential elections in South Korea. In the results of the verkiezingsonderzoek that immediately after the after the closing of the ballot boxes became known, the candidate of the Democratic Party of 41.4 percent of the vote.
His main rival, the conservative Hong Joon-pyo comes no further than 23.3 percent of the votes, reported to all major television channels in the country.
Moon is the successor of Park Geun-hye, the first female president of the country, at the end of 2012 a majority of the voters behind him. Park had to resign because of corruption and abuse of power. She is formally charged and can take up to a lifetime imprisonment will be sentenced.