Page 10 - Election Fraud in Korea-ENG-KOR

This has left a handful of stalwart YouTubers and reporters trying to follow up on election
integrity subjects in an attempt to keep some level of public awareness alive. One such
person is Heo Gyeom, a journalist at Skye Daily who has done good work on these issues.
Also, Hwang Kyo-Ahn, a former Acting President of South Korea continues to diligently
promote election integrity and to pursue and promote awareness of irregularities in the
South Korean electoral system – and encourages citizens to get involved in taking on this
threat.

Over 130 lawsuits were filed over election irregularities – an unprecedented number. South
Korean Electoral Law requires they are addressed and resolved within 180 days. Only a small
handful had been taken up for consideration over a year later.
Even the main opposition party (the "conservatives") did not pursue the charges with any
vigor. And they still don’t. Do so and you will have trouble in the party, and if you wish to run
you won’t be selected as a candidate for office. Keep your mouth shut about election fraud,
and things go easier for you.
This is partly owing to some conservative politicians simply not wanting to deal with the
trouble and controversy that comes with raising electoral fraud issues, thus posing a risk to
their position. In some cases it is said politicians simply don’t believe or cannot imagine such
allegations are true. And in a few cases there’s a certain schadenfreude at seeing party rivals
losing their elections.

2022 Presidential election
In May 2022, the conservative People Power Party’s Yoon Suk-yeol was elected president.
Despite a sizeable lead in the opinion polls before the election day and holding a comfortable
lead throughout election day, late arriving ‘early vote’ tallies for Democratic Party candidate
Lee Jae Myung shrunk Yoon’s lead to a miniscule 0.73% victory -- about 260,000 votes.
This raised suspicions of election manipulation.

The chairman of the National Election Commission (NEC), Noh Jung Hee resigned shortly
afterwards. His stated reason, "poor election management".
However, more suspect was the fact the Democratic Party candidate, Lee Jae Myung
conceded the contest on election night – despite the razor thin vote difference that normally
would have a candidate – his party and his supporters – demanding a recount.
Curious behavior to say the least.
Post-election saw the same sorts of allegations raised as following the 2020 National
Assembly election.
These included: irregular and counterfeit ballots, unmarked and suspiciously marked ballots,
and statistically improbable election results – notably involving the early vote counts that, as
before, went in Democratic Party favor, and raised suspicions that included electronic and
computer manipulation.
However, as in 2020, no serious review was conducted of the election fraud allegations – by
anybody in a position of authority, or as in the case of the media, with a professional duty to
inquire into the accuracy of the allegations.

People close to President Yoon claimed that he recognized something untoward had gone on
with South Korea’s electoral system.
The Democratic Party has not changed its fundamental nature nor objectives since Yoon
took office.

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