SEOUL - About 44 million South Koreans headed to polls to elect mayors and provincial governors on Wednesday , in races seen as an early test for new President Yoon Suk-yeol and his drive for fuellin
g an economic recovery and tackling inequality.an unprecedentedly tight presidential election by a margin of just 0.7 per cent in March, evidence of the deepening political, generational and gender divide that has frayed Asia's fourth-largest economy.
More than 4,000 offices are up for grabs, including 17 metropolitan city and provincial chiefs, as well as seven parliamentary seats. Among the most hotly contested are governor of the most populous province of Gyeonggi and a parliamentary seat from Incheon, west of the capital, Seoul.to cut home prices and expand supplies in the greater capital area.
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