Generational shift in South Korea with 36-year-old elected leader of main opposition party

Lee Jun-seok, newly elected chairman of the main opposition People Power Party, speaks at the party's headquarters in Seoul on June 11, 2021. - AFP

SEOUL (The Straits Times/ANN): Harvard graduate Lee Jun-seok, 36, has been elected the youngest-ever leader of South Korea's main opposition People's Power Party, in what is viewed as a major generational shift in politics as young people become more vocal and demand more changes in the country.

Lee was elected on Friday (June 11) during the conservative party's national convention, beating four political veterans including four-term lawmaker Na Kyung-won, 57, and five-term lawmaker Joo Ho-young, 61.