South Koreans headed to the polls in record numbers on Tuesday to vote for a new president exactly six months after the botched martial law decree by impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol unleashed political turmoil.

South Korea votes for a new president today, after months of political turmoil that began when the conservative president Yoon Suk Yeol briefly declared martial law in December, and then was impeached and expelled from office. Polls opened across the country just as we sent this newsletter.

Exactly six months after impeached president Yoon Suk-yeol’s failed attempt to invoke martial law, some political stability may finally be in sight for South Korea. On June 3rd, Lee Jae-myung of