Election night was long and unpredictable on Wednesday June 3. The results were only definitively known in the early morning: a blue wave, the color of the center-left party in power, swept over South Korea. By winning 12 of the country’s 16 regions, the Democratic Party (DP) has considerably strengthened its territorial foothold, winning eight regions compared to the 2022 election. Symbol of this domination, it has even managed to impose itself in conservative bastions, such as the port cities of Busan and Ulsan, or the mountainous region of Gangwon.
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