Overview

• Early voting reached 19.58% on May 29 and climbed to 20.41% by 7 a.m. on May 30 according to the National Election Commission.
• Democratic Party candidate Lee Jae-myung made his first official campaign stops in Gangwon Province and revisited Chungju in North Chungcheong to court voters he lost to Yoon Suk Yeol in 2022.
• People Power Party candidate Kim Moon-soo launched a 90-hour nonstop overnight tour with rallies in Gyeonggi Province followed by stops in North Chungcheong and Gangwon.
• A Yonhap poll released Wednesday showed Lee Jae-myung leading the three-way race with 49.2% support, followed by Kim Moon-soo at 36.8% and New Reform Party’s Lee Jun-seok at 10.3%.
• The June 3 vote will involve about 44.3 million eligible voters; it follows months of turmoil after former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment over a failed martial law decree.