Exit poll shows liberal candidate Lee forecast to win South Korean election

South Korea’s Democratic Party’s presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung (Lee Jin-man/AP)

Liberal candidate Lee Jae-myung is forecast to win South Korea’s snap presidential election, a joint exit poll on Tuesday showed.

The poll comes two months after his rival and then-conservative president Yoon Suk Yeol was removed from office over his short-lived imposition of martial law.