Efter härvan: Sydkorea väljer ny president

The 19th South Korean presidential election is scheduled to be held on 9 May 2017, after the impeachment and dismissal of incumbent Park Geun-hye. Under present law, the election will be decided in a single round on a first-past-the-post basis. The election was originally scheduled to be held on or before 20 December 2017, but was moved after the decision of the Constitutional Court to uphold the parliament's impeachment of Park Geun-hye. In the meantime, Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn succeeded Park as acting president. After Park was removed from office by the Constitutional Court, acting president Hwang has indicated he will not run for a term in his own right. Opinion polling before April consistently placed the Democratic Party's Moon Jae-in, runner-up in the 2012 election, as the frontrunner. The second place in opinion polls was initially held by recently succeeded UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who declined to run in February, followed by Ahn Hee-jung, until he lost the Democratic nomination to Moon. Support for People's Party founder Ahn Cheol-soo then rose to rival that of Moon in early April, before descending to approximately equal that of Liberty Korea Party candidate Hong Jun-pyo in final opinion polls.