Conservative Yoon Wins S Korea Presidential Race
The opposition conservative Yoon Suk-yeol has won South Korea's presidential election, South Korean news agency Yonhap reported early Thursday, propelling a political novice and avowed anti-feminist to the helm of Asia's fourth largest economy.After a bitter, hard-fought election campaign, Yoon, formerly a top government prosecutor who has never held elected office, was declared winner early Thursday after rival Lee Jae-myung from the incumbent Democratic Party conceded defeat."