Following the political scandal that began getting coverage in 2016, president Park Geun-hye was impeached, and snap elections were called.[1] Moon Jae-in of the Democratic Party defeated Hong Joon-pyo of the Liberty Korea Party and Ahn Cheol-soo of the People Party by a wide margin in the May 2017 election, bringing the Democrats back to power after nine years.[2] Following the first three years in office, Moon's power was significantly strengthened by his party's victory in the 2020 legislative election, which gave his party an absolute majority of 180 out of 300 seats in the National Assembly.[3]