A handful of elderly voters lined up at a polling station in Seoul’s Munrae-dong area at 6:00 am (2100 GMT) to cast their ballots.
Millions have already cast their ballots in the snap election, with more than a third of registered voters doing so last week during two days of early voting, the National Election Commission said.
Kim Moon-soo, from the conservative PPP -- Yoon’s former party -- trailed Lee on 35 percent.
“Polls show the election is largely viewed as a referendum on the previous administration,“ Kang Joo-hyun, a political science professor at Sookmyung Women’s University, told AFP.
And analysts say that South Korea’s conservative party is in crisis.
Conservative candidate Kim also failed to convince a third party candidate, Lee Jun-seok of the Reform Party, to unify and avoid splitting the right-wing vote.
“Conservative politics was associated with competent governance, but it’s now hard to argue that they remain capable,“ said Kang Won-taek, a political science professor at Seoul National University.
South Korean presidents serve a single five-year term.
But in a snap election, the winner becomes president as soon as the National Election Commission ratifies the vote tally.
In Gwangju, spiritual heartland of the South Korean left, Jung Se-yoon, 65, a retired teacher, said the election was a “turning point”.
Experts said voter turnout was expected to be high.
“If he manages to do so, it would give him a significant boost in momentum to govern as president.”
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