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On June 6th, the local election was held in Korea. This local election is meaningful because more than expected amount of people participated in the election and exerted their precious votes to choose a prospective person that can make their society a better place to live in. Traditionally, local elections did not caught many citizens¡¯ sight because of the people¡¯s prevalent thoughts that local elections cannot change the fate of Korea and it is too trivial to waste their time to vote. The election consists of five mini-elections. The local election chooses a provincial governor, a superintendent of education, a member of a city council and a district representative. The utmost reason why people got to be interested in the local election is perhaps because of the ¡°tragedy of Sewol¡±, a serious incident that aroused people¡¯s disbelief toward the government. The lame management after the incident engendered deaths of numerous students without any sin. After the incident, people¡¯s awareness of the importance of local leaders amplified. Especially, Koreans tended to be interested in the election of superintendent of education since the responsibility in education sharply increased after the tragedy of Sewol.
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There was an interesting anecdote that overturned the result of the election of a Seoul superintendent of education. Before a week before the election, the candidate named Ko Seung-duk who was thought to be elected with respect to the prior election result, but after his daughter¡¯s accusation of him being negligent to her hidden daughter, not supporting any of material or emotional affection. This accusation turned many voters¡¯ votes, and finally he failed to be elected as a superintendent of education of Seoul.
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Another issue that this election held was the ¡°would-be presidential runners¡±. Voters have made their choices in the local elections but the race is not over for would-be presidential runners. In this year¡¯s local elections a host of potential presidential runners competed for various local administrative posts, which would fill out their resumes in preparation for their presidential bids.
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Although the strategy paid off for former President Lee Myung-bak, who used his time as the Seoul mayor as a springboard towards the presidency, attempting a similar step has brought mixed results for various hopefuls.
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For Park Won-soon¡¯s rival in the local elections, Chung Mong-joon, the outlook is very shameful. Chung, a former lawmaker with seven-terms under his belt, lost against Park with a margin of nearly 13 percentage points.
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