After former leader Yoon Suk Yeol’s disastrous proclamation of martial law, South Koreans began voting for a new president on Tuesday, ending six months of political unrest.
At six in the morning, a few senior citizens waited in line to cast their ballots at a voting place in Seoul’s Munrae-dong neighborhood.
“We were the first to arrive with the hope our candidate gets elected, and because the presidential election is the most important,” Yu Bun-dol, 80, told AFP, adding that she was supporting the conservative nominee of the People Power Party (PPP).
According to the National Election Commission, millions of people have already cast their ballots in the snap election, with almost one-third of all registered voters doing so over the two days of early voting last week.
