Han Dong-hoon clinches assembly seat in Busan

Independent candidate Han Dong-hoon, the former leader of the main opposition People Power Party, clinched a National Assembly seat in a Wednesday by-election, taking Busan’s Buk-A district.

With 99.51 percent of ballots counted, 43 percent went to Han, narrowly ahead of Ha Jung-woo who got 41.2 percent.

Ha is a former senior secretary to President Lee Jae Myung for artificial intelligence who quit his post to run in the by-election.

Exit polls had indicated that Ha had a narrow lead over Han.

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