"From Morning Music and Loudspeakers... Election Season Noise and Banners Complaints Surge"

Complaints related to noise damage during the election period, inconvenience caused by banners, and reports of traffic law violations by vehicles have surged.

On the 22nd, the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission disclosed the analysis results of 19,949 election campaign-related complaints collected in the complaint analysis system from March 2021 to February this year. Major complaints included ▲reports of noise damage caused by election campaign vehicles ▲damage caused by election banners and requests for their removal ▲reports of traffic law violations by election campaign vehicles ▲inconvenience caused by election posters.

Actual complaints received included statements such as, "Campaigning with music playing on loudspeakers and whistles blowing from 6 a.m. is too excessive," "Due to election banners, vehicles turning right cannot see pedestrians waiting, which is dangerous," and "An election campaign vehicle has been blocking the entire crosswalk and parked on the pedestrian triangular island for three days."

The Commission issued a complaint advisory while proposing measures to reduce noise pollution damage, manage campaign materials, and ensure traffic safety to related agencies.

Meanwhile, the number of complaints last month was approximately 993,000, a decrease of 8.9% compared to the previous month. By institution type, complaints to local governments increased by 2.6%, while those to central administrative agencies decreased by 23.3%, education offices by 10.6%, and public institutions by 16.0%.

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