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[Zhan Debin, vice president of the Shanghai Korean Peninsula Research Association and director of the Korean Peninsula Research Center of Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, told Yicai that Lee Jae-myung himself had already emphasized that he would not resign if it was not for the election. "The party constitution of his Democratic Party stipulates that if you want to run for the party leader, you must not hold any party position and must run for the party leader as an ordinary member of the Democratic Party. Moreover, the party constitution of the Democratic Party does not stipulate that the party leader cannot be re-elected."]

[From August to September 2023, Lee Jae-myung went on a hunger strike for 24 days to protest against President Yoon Seok-yeol's administration, and later suspended his duties due to his deteriorating health.]

According to Xinhua News Agency, South Korea's largest opposition party, the Democratic Party of Korea, held a national congress on the 18th and elected Lee Jae-myung as the new party leader. As a result, Lee Jae-myung became the second party leader to be successfully re-elected.

Lee Jae-myung has been the leader of the Democratic Party since 2022. He resigned as party leader in June because of the party's rule that party leader candidates are not allowed to hold leadership positions within the party.

Lee Jae-myung, 59, won all 17 primaries in the current Democratic Party leadership election. According to the results of local primaries, opinion polls and online surveys, he received 85.4% of the votes, the highest vote share among all the party leaders. His main rival, Kim Doo-gwan, received 12.12% of the votes.

After Lee Jae-myung's victory, he expressed his hope to meet with President Yoon Seok-yeol to discuss the people's livelihood issues that need to be resolved most urgently. He also proposed a one-on-one dialogue with Han Dong-hoon, leader of the ruling People's Power Party.