Both the main candidates have pledged change for a country deeply scarred by a shock martial law briefly imposed by former leader Yoon Suk Yeol.

Lee Jae-myung, presidential candidate of South Korea's majority liberal Democratic Party, would be elected the country's new president with certainty, local broadcaster JTBC and three terrestrial broadcasters said Tuesday,

In a joint exit poll released on Jun. 3 by South Korea’s three major terrestrial broadcasters—KBS, MBC, and SBS—Democratic Party candidate Lee Jae-myung is projected to lead the 21st presidential election with 51.