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Surprise victory for ruling party in South Korea presidential election
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In South Korea, the conservative ruling New Frontier Party won 152 seats in the 300-seat National Assembly, 25 more than the Democratic United Party, the centre-left opposition. The Democratic Unity Party had been tipped to score an easy victory in earlier opinion polls but apparently threw away support by attacking an already-ratified free trade deal with the United States and the construction of a new naval base. RFI talked to Jung-Yeop Woo, a research fellow at the Asan Institute, about the repercussions of the result of the presidential election.
