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The current president, Yoon Suk Yeol, a former prosecutor general and member of the conservative People Power Party, assumed office on 10 May 2022, after defeating the Democratic Party's nominee Lee Jae-myung with a narrow 48.5% plurality in the 2022 South Korean presidential election.
List of presidents of South Korea. Presidential standard and seal of the president of the Republic of Korea. Top left: Rhee Syng-man became the first president of the Republic of Korea in 1948.
No.PortraitName (birth–death)Term Of Office(took Office)13Yoon Suk Yeol 윤석열 尹錫悅 (born ...10 May 2022Incumbent12Moon Jae-in 문재인 文在寅 (born ...10 May 20179 May 2022—Hwang Kyo-ahn 황교안 黃敎安 (born 1957) ...9 December 20169 May 201711Park Geun-hye 박근혜 朴槿惠 (born ...25 February 201310 March 2017 [n 4]Yoon Suk Yeol (Korean: 윤석열; born 18 December 1960) is a South Korean politician currently serving as the 13th president of South Korea since 2022. Prior to his presidency, he served as the prosecutor general of South Korea between 2019 and 2021. Born in Seoul, Yoon attended Seoul National University.
- 18 December 1960 (age 62), Seoul, South Korea
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Apr 12, 2024 · Moon Jae-In is a South Korean lawyer and civil rights activist who was the president of South Korea (2017–22) and leader of the liberal Democratic Party of Korea (2015–16). Although he was a proponent of the ‘sunshine’ policy of engagement with North Korea, he also advocated strong national defense.
Mar 9, 2022 · SEOUL — Yoon Suk-yeol, formerly the country’s top prosecutor, was elected president of South Korea on Wednesday, ushering in an era of conservative party rule that would significantly shift...
May 10, 2022 · SEOUL — Yoon Suk-yeol, the new president of South Korea, was sworn into office in Seoul on Tuesday, using his inaugural speech to make promises to heal political and economic divides at...
Mar 10, 2022 · SEOUL — South Korean voters chose a politically inexperienced conservative as president, in the nation's tightest race ever. Yoon Suk Yeol has promised a tougher line on North Korea, and a...