This is an election year in Korea. Presidential, provincial, local, everything. Everyone heads to the polls on December 19th. The run-up to elections in Korea is a lot like in the US. There are campaign ads, billboards, etc. The biggest difference is the presence of mobile campaign stations. These are trucks that have an open back. Some of the truck beds have a mobile stage on the back from which the candidates can pontificate with their street teams (who really just dance around and hand out flyers). Other trucks are outfitted with HUGE backlit pictures of the candidate and massive speaker systems that blare the candidates theme song for everyone to hear. Whenever I've gone downtown this month, I've been driven insane by two or three of these trucks being in the same vicinity, each trying to outdo each other in sound output. Luckily, since I don't watch Korean TV, I'm spared those political ads. I asked a few of the young people (around my age) in my school about how they vote--almost all of them just said they look for the man with the kindest face. Hey, at least they're voting, right?
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