December 20th, 2012 at 7:28 am » Comments (4)

Below is a South Korean election map that shows that Park Geun-hye pretty much won in every district outside Cholla-do and just barely losing in Seoul: Image from Yonhap News via the Marmot’s Hole. For those that cannot read Korean the red shows Park’s vote percentage and yellow shows Moon Jae-in’s vote percentage.

December 3rd, 2012 at 1:41 pm » Comments (0)

Officials at a Seoul ward prepare to mail pamphlets on candidates for the Dec. 19, 2012, presidential election, on Dec. 3. (Yonhap)

November 14th, 2012 at 1:45 pm » Comments (2)

Visitors look at dolls representing presidential candidates at the National Assembly building in Yeouido, Seoul on Monday. [Newsis]

April 11th, 2012 at 10:10 am » Comments (11)

Leave it to the South Korean left to lose an election that should have been a landslide in their favor considering how unpopular the ruling party has been in recent months: South Korea’s ruling party headed toward an upset victory in Wednesday’s parliamentary elections in what would be a major boon for its leader and presidential hopeful Park Geun-hye just eight months before the presidential vote. With about 84 percent of the votes counted, the ruling Saenuri Party won or was leading in 127 directly contested districts, according to an
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November 4th, 2010 at 3:04 am » Comments (26)

It is always good to see veterans getting elected to Congress and this year was a especially good year for veterans: The number of veterans in Congress with first-hand experience of the current wars will more than double next year, after voters backed a slate of new Republican veteran candidates Tuesday night. In all, at least eight Republican veteran candidates won House seats, and Illinois Republican Mark Kirk — who served briefly in Iraq and Afghanistan — grabbed the Senate seat formerly held by President Barack Obama. But Democratic veterans
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