On Wednesday, South Korea's President Moon Jae-in and his left-leaning alliance won a historic victory in the nation's Parliament. The South Korean population proved eager to vote, as there was a 66.8% voter turnout, the highest in a parliamentary election for 28 years.
While regional loyalties and ideological differences on North Korea have been motivating factors on voters, much of the success on Jae-in's victory can be attributed to South Korea's expert handling of the coronavirus pandemic. They had started screenings in February and at one point had the second largest outbreak. At that time there were 813 new cases a day, and now it has been reduced to fewer than 40 patients per day this past week. Meanwhile, other foreign leaders, including President Trump, have called on Moon Jae-in, asking South Korea to provide test kits and or advice in handling the outbreak. All this increased President Moon Jae-in's popularity, where it had at first been struggling.
With this victory. President Jae-in hopes to reinvigorate his stalled diplomacy with North Korea and press ahead with domestic issues, like reforming state prosecutors' offices.
In South Korea Vote, Virus Delivers Landslide Win to Governing Party
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