The Korea Times
The main opposition People Power Party (PPP) said Saturday it has chosen incumbent Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon as its candidate for the mayoral race in the June 3 local elections. Oh beat PPP Rep. Park Soo-min and former PPP Rep. Yun Hee-suk in a three-way primary, Rep. Park Duk-hyum, the party's nomination committee chief, said, setting him up against candidate Chong Won-o of the ruling Democratic Party of Korea in the mayoral election. Oh will be aiming to win his third consecutive and fifth non-consecutive term as mayor of Seoul. Born in 1961, Oh entered politics in 2000 after winning a parliamentary seat in Seoul's Gangnam district. Though he announced his retirement from politics four years later, he made a comeback in 2006 by becoming the first Seoul mayor in their 40s. Oh won reelection but resigned after staking his mayoralty on the results of a referendum on free school meals in 2011. After 10 years of absence from the political scene, he returned to City Hall by winning the April 2021 by-election and won reelection in 2022.
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