South Korea’s opposition leader Lee celebrates election victory

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South Korea's liberal presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung won the June 3 snap election beating his rival Kim Moon-soo of the People Power Party by about three million votes.   While celebrating his win with his supporters, Lee said he would not forget the duty of a president to unite the people.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00South Korea's conservative candidate Kim Moon-soo from the People Power Party

00:12conceded defeat in Tuesday's SNAP presidential election.

00:17Democratic Party's candidate Lee Jae-myung won 49.42% of the nearly 35 million votes cast

00:24to beat Kim, who polled 41.15% in the election that saw the highest turnout since 1997.

00:32The third candidate Lee Joon-seok of the Reform Party only received 8.34% of the votes.

00:40The winner, Lee Jae-myung, said he will not forget the duty to unite the people.

00:54Lee Jae-myung, President of the United States of China

01:20Residents hope that the newly elected president will revive the economy and create more jobs.

01:50I think it's a great opportunity to be in the hurry and be a new student,

01:54and?

01:55I think that all students take to be in the future and like this,

01:59yeah, that's really important to teach in all of our.

02:02So, as we all know,

02:04the next few years we've had to be in the future.

02:07We've also wanted to go through kind of the Stern Global was in the past,

02:12and you can really have to support the world inяс.

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