Opposition leader Lee Jae-myung was sworn in as South Korea’s next president on Wednesday following a dramatic snap election six months after the country’s previous leader declared martial law and plunged the nation into chaos.

Seoul, South Korea — Liberal candidate Lee Jae-myung is forecast to win South Korea's snap presidential election, a joint exit poll on Tuesday showed, two months after his archrival and then conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol was removed from office over his short-lived imposition of martial law.

South Korea’s ruling People Power Party floor leader Kweon Seong-dong sits during the impeachment vote of a plenary session for South Korean acting President and Prime Minister Han Duck-soo at the National Assembly in Seoul,