South Korea's conservatives dropped their presidential candidate on Saturday and reopened the nomination process, as the former prime minister joined the party to challenge the liberal frontrunner in an election just four weeks away.

South Korea's conservative party dropped its presidential candidate against his will on Saturday, beginning a process to instead nominate outsider and former prime minister Han Duck-soo less than a mo

Regardless of which candidate wins the election in June, he will be tasked with suppressing growing working-class opposition anger amid worsening economic and social conditions.