Korea’s Park Leads Close Election Race, Exit Polls Show
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South Korean ruling party presidential candidate Park Geun Hye leads opposition nominee Moon Jae In in a close race to lead Asia’s fourth-biggest economy, exit polls showed.
Park, of the New Frontier Party, has 50.1 percent of the vote compared with 48.9 percent for Moon, of the Democratic United Party, according to a joint exit poll released by TV broadcasters KBS, MBC and SBS after voting closed at 6 p.m. local time. The poll, conducted until 5 p.m., had a margin of error of plus or minus 0.8 percentage points.