{"id":58827,"date":"2017-05-09T16:07:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T15:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=58827"},"modified":"2017-05-09T16:07:55","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T15:07:55","slug":"liberal-candidate-moon-jae-in-wins-south-korean-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/liberal-candidate-moon-jae-in-wins-south-korean-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Candidate Moon Jae-in Wins South Korean Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Moon Jae-in, a left-leaning liberal who favours engagement with North Korea, has won South Korea&#8217;s presidential election.<\/h2>\n<p>The first exit polls after voting closed at 8pm showed Mr Moon had a substantial lead over all other candidates, with 41.4% support.<\/p>\n<p>Tens of millions of citizens flocked to nearly 14,000 polling stations nationwide in what was reported to be a high turnout for an eagerly anticipated snap election to replace scandal-hit former President Park Geun-hye.<\/p>\n<p>Among 13 candidates vying for the job, Moon was forecast to have earned 41.4 percent of the vote compared to conservative rival Hong Joon-pyo&#8217;s 23.2 percent, according to the exit poll carried out by broadcasters MBC, KBS and SBS.<\/p>\n<p>The data was released as voting closed at 8 p.m. local time (1100GMT). The winner will not take office until after being officially confirmed on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 8)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moon Jae-in, a left-leaning liberal who favours engagement with North Korea, has won South Korea&#8217;s presidential election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,118,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-hot","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}