What happened at the 2025 South Korean presidential election? What were the issues, policies and results of this snap election, which was triggered by the impeachment of former President Yoon Suk Yeol? What to expect next for South Korea as it navigates itself out of a political crisis?
Joining Mark Lippert and Victor Cha to discuss this and more are Michelle Ye Hee Lee from the Washington Post and Timothy W. Martin from The Wall Street Journal.
Michelle Ye Hee Lee is The Washington Post's Tokyo bureau chief, reporting on Japan and the Korean Peninsula. Previously, she covered money and influence in politics and voting access on the national political enterprise and accountability team and was a reporter for The Post's Fact Checker. Prior to joining The Post in 2014, she was a government accountability reporter at the Arizona Republic in Phoenix.
Timothy W. Martin is the Korea bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal in Seoul, overseeing the Journal's coverage of North and South Korea. He previously wrote about Samsung from Seoul, but in prior stints at the Journal's New York, Atlanta and Chicago offices, he covered Wall Street's biggest buyers, painkiller addiction, airlines and food.
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