Former Labor Minister and staunch conservative Kim Moon Soo won the presidential nomination of South Korea's main conservative party, facing an uphill battle against liberal front-runner Lee Jae-myung for the June 3 election.

South Korea’s former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo says he will run in next month’s presidential election and would seek to lessen the powers of the office and ease strife-ridden domestic politics if he wins.

A total of 258,254 overseas Koreans are eligible to vote in the upcoming 21st presidential election, according to the National Election Commission (NEC) on Monday. The figure includes 229,531 overseas absentees and 28,