Why Are Seoul District Offices and Mayors Encouraging Presidential Voting with the Same Message?

Seoul District Offices and Mayors Send 'Same Content Texts' on the Eve of the Election on the 8th to Encourage Voting

Seoul City Kkumsaegimpan

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jong-il] The historic 20th presidential election began at 6 a.m. on the 9th at polling stations nationwide.

Seoul district offices and district heads showed notable efforts to encourage voting in the presidential election throughout the previous day (the 8th) via mobile text messages (SMS) and social networking services (SNS).

In particular, districts such as Jung-gu, Dongdaemun-gu, and Dobong-gu sent SMS messages under the district office name requesting citizens to participate in the 20th presidential election vote. Additionally, district heads like Lee Seung-ro of Seongbuk-gu and Lee Dong-jin of Dobong-gu personally sent messages urging people to vote. Alongside this, district heads also demonstrated passionate encouragement for voting on SNS platforms like Facebook.

Currently, among the 25 Seoul district heads, excluding the Jongno and Seocho district heads who resigned to run in by-elections, 23 district heads from autonomous districts affiliated with the Democratic Party of Korea drew attention by sending the 'same message' to encourage voting.

This is interpreted as the autonomous districts and district heads encouraging voting because the Democratic Party of Korea's central party and Seoul city party were promoting voter turnout for the presidential election.

A representative from a Seoul autonomous district said, “Democracy ultimately means expressing one's opinion through voting, which is a right of participation as a citizen,” and added, “Encouraging voting is a desirable phenomenon.”

However, another official analyzed, “According to various opinion polls, the Democratic Party's presidential candidate is trailing behind the People Power Party's candidate, prompting last-minute efforts to encourage voting.”

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