WASHINGTON, Mar. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean voters in the United States began to cast ballots for next month’s parliamentary elections under an overseas voting program on Wednesday, as political parties at home are cranking up their campaigns for the polls seen as a public assessment on the administration of President Yoon Suk Yeol. [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Election day in South Korea was marked by a plethora of red voting stamps on social media. As soon as polls opened in the presidential election on Wednesday, voters shared photos on Instagram, Facebook and other online communities to show that they had voted. Many of them took photos [...]
SEOUL, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Separate voting booths were set up for those infected with COVID-19, including 10 special polling stations at big hospitals, as early voting got under way for next week’s presidential election amid soaring virus cases. This year’s election takes place as the wave of the omicron variant has been spreading [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Assembly on Monday passed a bill to allow COVID-19 patients and people in quarantine to vote from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on the day of the March 9 presidential election after regular polling closes. The revision to the Public Official Election Act was approved at a [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A parliamentary panel on Thursday passed a bill to allow COVID-19 patients and people in quarantine to vote from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on the day of the March 9 presidential election after regular polling closes. The revision to the Public Official Election Act passed the National Assembly’s [...]
SEOUL, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Voter turnout for South Korea’s parliamentary elections Wednesday soared to 66.2 percent, the highest point in 28 years, according to a tentative figure released by the state election body. It came amid the country’s monthslong fight against the coronavirus, which has triggered a sense of health and quarantine crises [...]
SEOUL, April 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Fears of the coronavirus didn’t stop South Koreans even in self-isolation from voting Wednesday. A prerequisite was that those who were self-isolating cast their ballots after the regular voting hours that ended at 6 p.m. They were required to arrive at designated polling stations on foot or by their [...]
SEOUL, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) — New 18-year-old voters cast their ballots in a general election for the first time on Wednesday amid concerns that the coronavirus may affect the turnout of the new voters. In late 2019, the National Assembly passed an electoral reform bill lowering the voting age from 19 to 18 and [...]
SEOUL, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Armed with face masks and plastic gloves, South Koreans voted for a new National Assembly on Wednesday under strict coronavirus quarantine procedures, such as temperature taking, sanitizing hands and distancing from each other in lines. South Korea is the first major country to hold nationwide elections since the coronavirus [...]
SEOUL, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Self-isolators will be allowed to cast ballots in the upcoming parliamentary elections if they do not show symptoms of coronavirus infection, authorities said Sunday. “People who were ordered to go into self-quarantine from April 1-14 and show no symptoms on the day of voting can cast ballots,” Health Minister [...]