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Park Geun-hye apparent winner of presidential election

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  • Published Dec 19, 2012 10:45 pm KST
  • Updated Dec 19, 2012 10:45 pm KST

Early poll counts in the presidential elections have shown that Park Geun-hye of the Saenuri Party is headed for a win by a margin that is larger than expected.

According to the latest report from the Korea Broadcasting System at 10. P.m. Wednesday, with 32 percent of the votes counted, Park was ahead with 52.8 percent of the votes against 46.8 percent for Moon Jae-in of the Democratic United Party.