- Ban Ki-moon is due to return to South Korea on Thursday, where political parties will lock horns to recruit him.
- Having stepped down last month as the secretary-general of the United Nations, Ban is leaving New York and moving back to Seoul to presumably seek the presidency as his home country grapples with its worst-ever political crisis.
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