The attack on Lee Jae-myung, who narrowly lost the 2022 presidential vote, came amid a deepening political divide and increasingly extreme discourse in South Korea.
Lee Jae-myung, the leader of the Democratic Party, was stabbed in the neck in the city of Busan. No information about his condition was immediately available.
Lee Jae-myung has been the subject of a series of investigations since losing the 2022 presidential election. He says his rival now runs “a dictatorship by prosecutors.”