{"id":78873,"date":"2025-06-03T14:44:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T14:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/record-turnout-in-south-korea-election-after-failed-martial-law-bid-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T14:44:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T14:44:15","slug":"record-turnout-in-south-korea-election-after-failed-martial-law-bid-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/record-turnout-in-south-korea-election-after-failed-martial-law-bid-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Record turnout in South Korea election after failed martial law bid  | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of South Koreans are heading to the polls to vote in a snap election triggered by former president Yoon <!--more--> Suk Yeol&#8217;s impeachment over his failed martial law bid.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition&#8217;s Lee Jae-myung is the frontrunner &#8211; and the ruling party&#8217;s Kim Moon-soo, a former member of Yoon&#8217;s cabinet, is trailing him.<\/p>\n<p>The election has been shaped by the fallout from Yoon&#8217;s brief but disastrous move in December, which triggered divisive protests and months of political chaos.<\/p>\n<p>The new president faces a polarised country, businesses anxious over US tariffs and an unpredictable ally in Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#SouthKorea  #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of South Koreans are heading to the polls to vote in a snap election triggered by former president Yoon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}