Democratic Party nominee Lee Jae-myung will be retried on electoral violation charges, while the acting president has resigned and is expected to enter the race.

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's Supreme Court overturned on Thursday an earlier ruling that Lee Jae-myung, the frontrunner in the presidential race, was not guilty of violating the election law, throwing into doubt his eligibility to run for the presidency.

South Korea's Supreme Court threw into doubt frontrunner Lee Jae-myung's eligibility to run for the presidency on Thursday by overturning an earlier ruling that had cleared him of breaking an election law.