{"id":101690,"date":"2017-05-10T00:38:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T04:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=101690"},"modified":"2017-05-10T00:39:17","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T04:39:17","slug":"moon-confirmed-winner-of-election-starts-duties-of-s-korean-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/05\/10\/moon-confirmed-winner-of-election-starts-duties-of-s-korean-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"Moon confirmed winner of election, starts duties of S. Korean presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_101691\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101691\" style=\"width: 207px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Sim_Sangjung_and_Moon_Jaein_in_2015_cropped_to_Moon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-101691\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Sim_Sangjung_and_Moon_Jaein_in_2015_cropped_to_Moon.jpg\" alt=\"South Korea's National Election Commission (NEC) on Wednesday morning declared Moon Jae-in the winner of the presidential election and Moon started duties of presidency right after the confirmation. (Photo by New Politics Alliance for Democracy [CC BY 2.0 kr (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/kr\/deed.en)])\" width=\"207\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Sim_Sangjung_and_Moon_Jaein_in_2015_cropped_to_Moon.jpg 207w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Sim_Sangjung_and_Moon_Jaein_in_2015_cropped_to_Moon-147x300.jpg 147w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-101691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">South Korea&#8217;s National Election Commission (NEC) on Wednesday morning declared Moon Jae-in the winner of the presidential election and Moon started duties of presidency right after the confirmation. (Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3ASim_Sangjung_and_Moon_Jaein_in_2015_(cropped_to_Moon).jpg\">New Politics Alliance for Democracy [CC BY 2.0 kr (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/kr\/deed.en)]<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>SEOUL\u2014South Korea&#8217;s National Election Commission (NEC) on Wednesday morning declared Moon Jae-in the winner of the presidential election and Moon started duties of presidency right after the confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>According to the NEC, Moon secured 13,423,800 votes, or 41.08 percent of the total 32,807,908 votes cast, defeating his two main rivals by a large margin.<\/p>\n<p>Local media reports said Moon&#8217;s inauguration ceremony will be held later at noon in the national assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Moon&#8217;s victory was assured by local media outlets in an early stage of vote count on Tuesday night and Moon celebrated and gave a televised speech to the jubilant supporters gathering at the Gwanghwamun square in central Seoul.<\/p>\n<p>Moon told supporters that he will become a president of all the people from Wednesday, and a president of unity, caring about those who did not support him in the election.<\/p>\n<p>Moon, who lost narrowly to his predecessor Park Geun-hye in 2012, conveniently won this election as the conservative bloc was brought down by Park&#8217;s impeachment and arrest over corruption allegations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL\u2014South Korea&#8217;s National Election Commission (NEC) on Wednesday morning declared Moon Jae-in the winner of the presidential election and Moon &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":101691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,16,17],"tags":[18904,18903],"class_list":["post-101690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news","category-news-w","tag-moon-jae","tag-national-election-commission","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}