PPP’s Kim Moon-soo registers presidential candidacy with election watchdog

The People Power Party’s presidential candidate Kim Moon-soo registered his candidacy with the election watchdog Sunday, pledging to win the presidency and make Korea a “great country.” “This upcoming presidential election is important as it will choose a president who must overcome the crisis Korea is facing and who can make efforts to achieve the people’s happiness,” Kim told reporters after registering with the National Election Commission in Gwacheon, just south of Seoul. “I will be elected without fail and will make every possible effort to make Korea a great country,” he said. On Saturday, the People Power Party’s (PPP) all-member meeting voted down a motion led by the party’s leadership to replace him with former Prime Minister Han Duck-woo as the party’s presidential candidate, ending a weeklong internal dispute between him and the leadership. Kim, a former labor minister, had secured the party’s nomination through the primaries but had since come under intense pressure from the party leadership to merge campaigns with Han, who had polled better in hypothetical matchups with fron

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