South Korea's election authorities are facing mounting pressure after ballot shortages disrupted voting at dozens of polling stations during local elections.

SEOUL--Lee Jae-myung, who rose from childhood poverty to become South Korea’s leading liberal politician vowing to fight inequality and corruption, will become the country's next president on Wednesday after an election that closed one of the most turbulent chapters in the young democracy.

President Lee Jae Myung came to office after his predecessor, a conservative, was ousted for imposing martial law. Now exit polls suggest that Mr. Lee’s popularity rippled across other contests.

South Koreans began voting Wednesday in mayoral and other local elections that are seen as a gauge of support for President Lee Jae Myung’s year-old liberal government. Opinion surveys suggested

Woo Jung-yeop is a Research Fellow at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies in Seoul. With a presidential election looming next year in Seoul, the South Korean news media has begun to speculate who will be the next president. Most of these stories have ...

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has nominated former Naver CEO Han Seong-sook as prime minister. If approved by parliament, she will become South Korea's first female prime minister in nearly two decades,

From Starbucks' Tank Day blunder to election protests, South Korea's political climate is making it one of the world's riskiest brand environments.