President Yoon Suk-yeol vows to reform state affairs after crushing defeat in parliamentary elections. His People Power Party barely managed to prevent the progressive bloc from gaining a two-thirds majority of 300 seats.
Prime Minister Han Duck-soo and three senior aides, including Lee himself, have offered to resign to take responsibility for the election meltdown. Yoon is the first president in South Korea's young democratic history to work with an opposition-controlled parliament for his full five years in office. The results highlighted the severe deterioration in public sentiment towards the Yoon administration just two years after he took office. elections held on Wednesday marked another major setback for the People Power party and President Yoon. The Democrats, in fact, won 161 of the 254 seats in the single-member constituencies, while the PPP obtained only 90. In the broader Seoul area, Democrats won 90 out of 122 constituencies. In Gyeonggi Province they took 53 out of 60 seats up for grabs. The New Reform Party of former deposed PPP leader Lee Jun-seok took two.