South Korea is conducting a mayoral by-election in Seoul and Busan this (7) day, and voting will end at 8:00 pm tonight (7:00 pm Taiwan time), and the “exit polls” are expected to be released at 8:15 pm by the three major Korean television stations KBS, MBC and SBS. The former mayor of Seoul, Park Won-soon, who committed suicide due to a sexual harassment scandal, and the former mayor of Busan, Oh Ju-dong, who resigned due to alleged sexual harassment of a female civil servant, both belonged to the ruling party of Korea, the Common Democratic Party.
The former mayor of Seoul, Park Won-soon, committed suicide due to his involvement in a sexual harassment scandal, and the former mayor of Busan, Oh Ju-don, resigned due to his alleged sexual harassment of a female civil servant, and the mayoral vacancies of both of them are up for election today. In the Busan mayor’s election, Park Hyung Jun of the National Power received 64.0%, while Kim Young Chun of the Unified Democratic Party received only 33.0%.
In the past year, the New Guinea virus epidemic has continued to spread in Korea, and the failure of President Moon Jae-in’s prevention policy has led to an average increase of about 50% in property prices in Seoul during his term of office, and a scandal involving insider land speculation by civil servants of the Land and Housing Corporation under the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, which is responsible for the construction of state housing, has caused a sharp decline in the approval rating of the Moon Jae-in government.
The two metropolitan areas are considered as “the outpost of next year’s presidential election”, and the unfavorable polls of the ruling party indicate that the government may change the party next year. Voting officially ends at 8:00 p.m. KST today, and exit polls are expected to be released at 8:15 p.m.
National Power Busan mayoral candidate Park Hyung Jun said, “What the election made me feel deeply is not just that voters voted for me because we did well, but that they voted for me because they had to strictly spur me on, which made me feel deeply the horror of the people’s hearts.”
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