Center-left presidential hopeful Moon Jae-In won the presidential election in South Korea after gaining 41.4% of the vote, exit polls showed. Conservative Hong Joon-pyo came in second with 23.3%.
His election comes after former President Park Geun-hye was impeached in March and amid rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula. However, Moon, a son of North Korean refugees, supports warmer relations with Pyongyang. In his campaign, Moon promised to return to the so-called Sunshine Policy of South Korea for which former President Kim Dae-jung got the Nobel Peace Prize in 2000.
