SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's main opposition Democratic Party and its allies were projected to retain a majority by winning up to 197 seats in Wednesday's elections for the single-chamber, 300-seat legislature, an exit poll conducted jointly by three television networks showed.
(Reporting by Hyonhee Shin; Editing by Ed Davies)
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