(3 May 2025)
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Goyang, South Korea – 3 May 2025
1. Various of South Korea’s main conservative People Power Party convention
2. Various of Kim Moon Soo and Han Dong-hun on stage, waving and embracing
3. Close of crowd
4. Wide of stage
5. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Hwang Woo-yeo, Presidential Candidate Election Commissioner:
"The People Power Party candidate for the 21st Presidential Election is Kim Moon Soo, who was the highest vote-getter."
6. Various of Kim Moon Soo celebrating, shaking Han ‘s hand
7. Wide of stage, Kim and Han being presented with flowers
8. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Kim Moon Soo, South Korea’s former Labour Minister and presidential candidate for People Power Party:
"If People Power Party wants to win the election, we have to be reborn. I will reform the party as quickly as possible. I will restructure the party to ensure the unity between the party and candidate."
9. Wide of Kim speaking on stage
10. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Kim Moon Soo, South Korea’s former Labour Minister and presidential candidate for People Power Party:
"Our president was impeached. Our democracy is in crisis. We are gathered here today with the resolve to win the presidential election."
11. Wide of Kim speaking
12. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Kim Moon Soo, South Korea’s former Labour Minister and presidential candidate for People Power Party:
"I won’t let extremists, who deny the system, cause chaos in the country. I will restore liberal democratic Republic of Korea."
13. Various of Kim celebrating with party members
STORYLINE:
Former Labour Minister Kim Moon Soo won the presidential nomination of South Korea’s main conservative party, facing an uphill battle against liberal front-runner Lee Jae-myung for the June 3 election.
Observers say Kim will likely try to align with other conservative forces, such as former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, to prevent a split in conservative votes in a bid to boost prospects for a conservative win against Lee.
In a party primary that ended Saturday, Kim won 56.5% of the votes cast, beating his sole competitor, Han Dong-hun, the party said in a televised announcement. Other contenders have been eliminated in earlier rounds.
The June 3 election is meant to find a successor to conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol, a People Power Party member who was impeached by the opposition-controlled National Assembly in mid-December and dismissed by the Constitutional Court in early April over his ill-fated imposition of martial law.
Yoon’s impeachment is a major source of feuding at the PPP and a hot topic at the party’s primary.
Kim, who served as labor minister under Yoon, has opposed parliament’s impeachment of Yoon, though he said he disagreed with Yoon’s decision to declare martial law on December 3.
Kim gained popularity among hardline PPP supporters after he solely defied a demand on December 11 by an opposition lawmaker that all Cabinet members stand up and bow in a gesture of apology for Yoon’s martial law enactment at the National Assembly.
Han Dong-hun, Kim’s main contender in the PPP’s primary, served as Yoon’s first justice minister.
Han leads a reformist yet minority faction at the PPP who joined the liberal opposition in voting to overturn Yoon’s martial law decree and later impeach him.
Without the support of Han’s faction members, an opposition-led impeachment motion on Yoon couldn’t have passed through the National Assembly because opposition parties were eight votes short of a two-thirds majority to approve it.
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