SEOUL: South Koreans voted on Wednesday in a tightly fought presidential election, with the deciding votes set to be cast by young people, whose top concerns are economic inequality and unemployment, not recent saber-rattling from nuclear-armed North Korea.
Official figures showed a high turnout of about 65 percent by 2 p.m. (local time), after record early voting, following a campaign dominated by mudslinging between the two frontrunners, the incumbent Democratic Party's Lee Jae-myung and the opposition conservative People Power Party's Yoon Suk-yeol.
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