SEOUL -- As South Korean President Moon Jae-in finds himself facing a backlash from the country's disillusioned youth, a 36-year-old political novice has taken a step closer to leading the party that will challenge Moon's Democrats in next year's presidential election.
"We will transform into a youthful People Power Party that the younger generation will recognize as bearing no resemblance to the party they once knew," Lee Jun-seok, the rising star of the main opposition party, said Wednesday during a speech sponsored by the PPP in the city of Busan.
