South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol's administration faces a test of leadership in April 10's general election, as a heated contest unfolds between his ruling party and a main opposition party currently controlling the legislature.
After the election, Yoon will face greater difficulty in pushing through his pro-market reforms in labour, the national pension fund and education, analysts say.
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President Yoon Suk Yeol's fate was hanging in the balance as the exit poll of Wednesday's general election suggested a gloomy outlook for the ruling bloc which could raise the possibility of the conservative leader becoming a lame-duck president, with three years remaining of his term. Exit poll results as of press time Wednesday implied that opposition parties could secure two-thirds or more of the seats i.