SOUTH KOREAN President Park Geun Hye’s conservative Saenuri party lost Wednesday’s parliamentary elections, results showed yesterday.

Saenuri had been expected to capitalise on a rise in tensions with North Korea to maintain its majority, but only took 122 seats in the 300-member assembly — one less than the liberal Minjoo party.

The People’s Party, a leftwards split from Minjoo, won 38 seats.