Official campaigning for April 10 general election begins in South Korea [View all]
Official campaigning for South Korea's general election kicked off Thursday, with the country's low birthrate and North Korea's missile threat among the key issues as President Yoon Suk Yeol's government prepares to face the verdict of voters on its achievements since its launch in May 2022.
The 300-member National Assembly is currently controlled by the main opposition Democratic Party, led by Lee Jae Myung, who lost to Yoon in the presidential election two years ago, but Yoon's People Power Party was marginally ahead in a Gallup Korea weekly poll of voter support released last Friday.
It was backed by 34 percent of respondents, against 33 percent for the Democratic Party, ahead of the April 10 election, which will determine how much parliamentary support Yoon can count on over the remaining three years of his term.
According to the poll, those who supported Yoon thought highly of his foreign policies. The president has adopted a hard-line stance toward North Korea, in contrast to the rapprochement policy of his predecessor Moon Jae In from the DP.
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