Candidate spouses take centre stage in South Korea's heated presidential race


  • World
  • Tuesday, 27 May 2025

Seol Nan-young, the wife of Kim Moon-soo the presidential candidate for South Korea's conservative People Power Party, poses for photographs with female supporters during an event at party’s headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, May 21, 2025. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji

SEOUL (Reuters) -The wife of South Korea's main conservative party candidate has taken a leading role ahead of next week's elections, campaigning on her own to tarnish the image of the liberal frontrunner and his spouse and turbocharge her husband's bid.

Last week, Seol Nan-young even took her unusually vocal criticism onto Saturday Night Live Korea, joking about scandals dogging the wife of her husband's chief rival and promoting a clean family image for her spouse, conservative People Power Party candidate Kim Moon-soo.

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