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Exit polls collected by Korea's big three terrestrial broadcasters showed Lee Jae-myung as the likely winner of the June 3 election. (still from MBC)

Lee Jae-myung, the presidential candidate for the center-left Democratic Party, has a two-digit lead over the conservative People Power Party’s candidate, Kim Moon-soo, according to exit polls by Korea’s three terrestrial broadcasters.

According to exit polls jointly carried out by KBS, MBC and SBS on Tuesday, Lee Jae-myung (51.7%) was leading Kim Moon-soo (39.3%) by 12.4 points. Lee Jun-seok with the minor conservative Reform Party polled at 7.7%, followed by Kwon Young-gook with the minor progressive Democratic Labor Party at 1.3%.


The three terrestrial broadcasters’ joint predictive poll committee combined the results of a telephone poll of some 11,500 early voters with exit polls of around 100,000 voters canvassed at 325 polling stations around the country between 6 am and 8 pm on Tuesday. The exit polls have a confidence level of 95% and a margin of error of plus or minus 0.8 points.


By Seo Young-ji, staff reporter

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