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South Korea Presidential Election 2027

Wednesday, March 3, 2027 · 118 days away

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Event overview

South Korea's next regular presidential election under the single five-year term rule of the 1987 Constitution, following the 2025 snap election that replaced Yoon Suk-yeol.

Date: 2027-03-03
Country / jurisdiction: South Korea
Region: Global
Category: Elections
Status: expected

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Source trail

Source trail for South Korea Presidential Election 2027

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Primary source

nec.go.kr

Last reviewed

2026-04-30

Tracker status

expected

Date precision

Expected single-date signal; useful for monitoring, but not strong enough for irreversible plans.

Schema posture

Precise Event startDate schema is withheld so the page does not overstate an expected or windowed date.

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Primary citation

The current date signal points to nec.go.kr. The source URL is shown visibly on the page so readers can verify late changes instead of relying only on the timer.

Freshness and review

Source policy was reviewed on 2026-04-30. Live countdown values are render-time snapshots; editorial source fields update when the tracked event dataset changes.

Operational detail

The record does not carry a reliable public start time yet, so the page avoids implying a midnight or all-day start.

Weak-date handling

The page stays crawlable and useful, but confidence copy and schema posture are deliberately weaker than a confirmed event page.

What this countdown tracks

South Korea's next regular presidential election, scheduled for Wednesday 3 March 2027 under the single five-year, non-renewable term established by the 1987 Constitution. Roughly 44 million eligible voters elect a single President in a one-round, first-past-the-post nationwide ballot — the head of state and government of the world's tenth-largest economy.

About this election

South Korea moved its presidential cycle into a snap configuration after the 14 December 2024 impeachment of President Yoon Suk-yeol following his short-lived 3 December 2024 declaration of martial law. The 3 June 2025 snap election returned the Democratic Party's Lee Jae-myung to the Blue House by a 49.4 to 41.2 percent margin over the People Power Party's Kim Moon-soo. Under the Constitution the next regular election therefore falls in March 2027 — five years after the 9 March 2022 vote that Yoon had originally won — and not in 2030.

The Constitutional Court's confirmation of impeachment, the criminal trial of Yoon, and the institutional fallout from the December 2024 crisis remain the dominant institutional backdrop. The 22nd National Assembly elected in April 2024 — where the Democratic Party holds 175 of 300 seats — is unaffected and continues until April 2028.

Key issues

The 2027 campaign will weigh the Lee government's economic record against export-dependent slowdown and chip-cycle pressures, North Korea policy and the durability of the trilateral US-Japan-Korea security cooperation framework, demographic crisis and the world's lowest fertility rate, gender-equality and conscription-reform debates, and the unresolved constitutional question of presidential power that the December 2024 emergency exposed. Inter-Korean rapprochement versus deterrence remains the defining foreign-policy axis.

Past results

2025 (snap, 3 Jun): Lee Jae-myung (Democratic) 49.4%, Kim Moon-soo (People Power) 41.2%, Lee Jun-seok (New Reform) 8.3%.
2022: Yoon Suk-yeol (People Power) 48.56%, Lee Jae-myung (Democratic) 47.83% — narrowest margin in Korean history.
2017: Moon Jae-in (Democratic) 41.1%, Hong Jun-pyo (Liberty Korea) 24.0%, Ahn Cheol-soo (People's Party) 21.4%.
2012: Park Geun-hye (Saenuri) 51.6%, Moon Jae-in (Democratic United) 48.0%.
2007: Lee Myung-bak (Grand National) 48.7%, Chung Dong-young (United New Democratic) 26.1%.

How to follow

The National Election Commission publishes live results at nec.go.kr; KBS, MBC, SBS and YTN run the dominant Korean-language coverage with overnight specials. International viewers can follow Yonhap, the Korea Herald, the Chosun Ilbo and the JoongAng Ilbo English editions. Polls open 06:00 to 18:00 KST and the winner is typically projected within two hours of polls closing.

South Korea's 2027 vote sits in the East Asian electoral cluster with the Japan councillors election and the Philippines presidential election. For comparable five-year presidential cycles see the Iran presidential election and Turkey presidential election.

FAQ

When is the South Korea 2027 election? Wednesday 3 March 2027 — the constitutionally scheduled regular date five years after the March 2022 vote. Who is running? Incumbent Lee Jae-myung is term-limited (single five-year term). The Democratic Party will nominate a successor; the People Power Party and the New Reform Party will field rival tickets. Why does this election matter globally? South Korea is a US treaty ally, leading semiconductor producer (Samsung, SK Hynix), and a swing actor in trilateral cooperation with Japan against North Korea and China. Why is the date in March, not December? The 1987 Constitution sets the presidential term at five years, non-renewable; the schedule resets when an impeached president's term is cut short by a snap election.

Date confidence

Expected date

South Korea Presidential Election 2027 has an expected date signal, but the source has not locked every detail. Treat the countdown as a monitoring aid and verify the linked source before making time-sensitive plans.

Source

https://www.nec.go.kr/

Source host: nec.go.kr
Date precision: Expected single-date signal; verify before acting
Schema posture: Precise Event startDate withheld because the record is expected or windowed
Planning boundary: Use as a monitoring aid until the source trail is stronger

Structured data posture

This page does not emit a precise Event startDate because the tracked record is expected or windowed. The countdown stays useful for monitoring, while schema avoids making a stronger claim than the source supports.

Countdown evidence

Retention class

Expected-date monitoring countdown

Evidence score

4/10 record signals

City-page readiness

Held to date-first

Evidence score4/10 signals present: primary source URL; tracked date; place context; related event cluster
Date and schemaSchema-limited watchlist date: Expected single-date signal; useful for monitoring, but not strong enough for irreversible plans. Precise Event startDate schema is withheld so the page does not overstate an expected or windowed date.
Local-time readinessDate-first only: The record is not used as a city-local event page until it has a reliable time, timezone, and non-windowed date.
Record completeness1 concrete fields: country South Korea
Weak-field watchlist4 fields to improve: verified public start time; venue; manual official-source note; historical sequence
Source freshnessnec.go.kr; reviewed 2026-04-30: Related crawl path: Iran Nuclear Strike One-Year Anniversary, F1 2027 Engine Regulations Debut, Punjab Assembly Election 2027, Eid al-Fitr 2027.

Planning notes

How to use this South Korea Presidential Election 2027 countdown

Countdown pages are useful when they are honest about what is known, what is merely expected, and what still needs checking. This page keeps the live timer separate from the source confidence and structured-data posture.

Date confidence

This record uses an expected single-date signal for Wednesday, March 3, 2027; verify nec.go.kr before committing travel, spend, publication, or launch planning. The page keeps Event structured data cautious because the date is expected or windowed.

What could change

Watch for date shifts, venue or access updates, broadcast windows, registration rules, and source corrections. The current precision is: Expected single-date signal; useful for monitoring, but not strong enough for irreversible plans..

Local-time usefulness

No reliable source start time is attached yet, so the page stays date-first and avoids implying a midnight start. 118 days remain at render time.

Category context

South Korea Presidential Election 2027 sits in Elections with country South Korea. Related countdown links should help users compare similar events, not create unverified event-city pages.

Catalog-specific details

No creator, platform, league, brand, fixture, family, or alternate-name detail is attached to this event record.

Series and expectation notes

No series history, end date, or what-to-expect field is attached.

Priority note

This page is kept specific through source confidence, category, region, date precision, and update notes rather than generic countdown filler.

Verification trail

source URL https://www.nec.go.kr/. trust checks: Source host: nec.go.kr, Date precision: Expected single-date signal; verify before acting, Schema posture: Precise Event startDate withheld because the record is expected or windowed, and Planning boundary: Use as a monitoring aid until the source trail is stronger. no manual editorial context is attached yet.

Record completeness

present fields: country South Korea. missing or weak fields: verified public start time, venue, manual official-source note, and historical sequence

Related crawl path

Nearby retained events: Iran Nuclear Strike One-Year Anniversary, F1 2027 Engine Regulations Debut, Punjab Assembly Election 2027, Eid al-Fitr 2027, and Manipur Legislative Assembly Election 2027. These links should support topical discovery without creating unverified event-city pages.

Review boundary: this page tracks the public date signal, source link, category, region, and calendar posture. It does not replace official ticketing, exchange, broadcaster, organizer, court, regulator, or government notices.

Source reviewed Apr 30, 2026. The countdown record is intentionally labeled as scheduled or expected; use the source link and any range notes before treating the date as final.

Live values rendered at Nov 5, 7:09 PM UTC.

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