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Won-Gi Jung
Won-Gi Jung is a reporter based in Seoul. He previously worked for the CSIS Korea Chair and East Asia Institute. Follow him on Twitter.
“Outsider,” “populist,” a “bulldozer;” these are the labels that have followed Lee Jae-myung throughout his political career.
He now has the South Korean presidency firmly in his sights, leading many national polls and locking up the ruling Democratic Party’s nomination on Sunday.