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A record high five people of Korean descent were elected local councillors in the United Kingdom.
According to the outcome of the local elections for England on Friday, incumbent Labour Party-affiliated councillor Bora Kwon, representing College Park and Old Oak on the Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council, secured her third term.
It is the first time that a politician of Korean descent was elected for a third term in the U.K.
In the Kingston upon Thames Council, four Liberal Democrats of Korean descent were elected – incumbents Elizabeth Park and Robert Kim for a second term, and Jane Lim and Callum Sol Morrisey for the first time – together taking up four out of 48 seats on the council.
Kwon and former councillor Jaesung Ha were the first politicians of Korean descent to be elected in the U.K. local elections in 2018.