By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -South Koreans went to the polls on Wednesday to elect a new president who will shape Asia’s fourth-largest economy riven by gender and generational divides, face off with a confrontational North Korea, and guide the country’s rising status in the world. The campaign was marked by surprises, scandals and smears, but the policy stakes are high for the country’s 52 million residents, and whoever they elect to be president for the next five years. The winner will face mounting challenges including handling the effects of South Korea’s worst wave of COVID-19 infecti…

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