Picture of the Day: NEC Raided Again
The entrance to an office of the National Election Commission (NEC) is seen in Seoul on Aug. 7, 2026. Investigators from a joint prosecution-police task force began a search and seizure at the NEC’s headquarters in Gwacheon, just south of Seoul, and other local commissions in the capital, Gyeonggi and North Chungcheong provinces to secure evidence over suspicions of data manipulation in connection with the June 3 local elections. (Yonhap)
This likely has to be for some kind of political theater at this point, because what evidence could there possibly be left to find after all this time?
As always @GIKorea gets it wrong.
It isn’t the left that’s making a fuss.
It’s the PPP and the right wingers that are making a real big fuss regarding the NEC, since the right cannot get over the election fraud conspiracy theories.
As for the left, since the incompetence of the NEC has been laid out, they are pursuing the matter for the sake of accountability and improvement of the NEC.
As always @KoreanPerson gets so defensive and his or her feelings take over..
What you’re claiming is simply convenient partisan amnesia. Calling your own party’s attacks on the NEC ‘noble reform’ while labeling the opposition’s ‘conspiracy’ is just hypocrisy. Both sides drag the election commission through the dirt whenever the rules don’t favor them, let’s be real.. the Left just coats its power grabs in cleaner language.
I’d take a look on Mayor of Chungju (맹정섭) who made a scene saying there was election fraud, after losing by a narrow margin of 124 votes (with over 2,200 invalid votes). Even the far-left MBC featured in their news. Feel free to Google/YouTube it at your leisure. 🙂
Oh and btw, the current fake President Lee also called out election fraud.. oh the irony!! Amnesia when it’s convenient for you, eh? As a reminder, he posted on SNS back in 2017 (I think..) that the presidential election was a “rigged election” and that digital tallying should be banned. When politicians are in opposition, questioning the integrity of the vote or the NEC is standard playbook across the entire political spectrum. The Left is no exception.
Then enlighten us.
Your favored mayoral candidate Oh Se-hoon got reelected Seoul Mayor.
Why did your compatriots go crazy and blockade the SK Olympic Handball Gymnasium at Olympic Park for over two months?
@Korean Person, you just validated my point, this is political theater to show the Lee administration is “doing something” to address the criticisms from the Korean right.
@GIKorea
Your point was that the left is pursuing this matter because the right is making a big fuss.
However you didn’t address the point that the right is making a big fuss because it fits their narrative regarding election conspiracies. They are not addressing the fundamental problems with the NEC.
The left on the other hand see the incompetence of the NEC, which is now coming out and the need to correct the fundamental problems with the NEX, which was my point.
Of course it is obvious that if an organization isn’t doing a good job, then the organization in question should be fixed.
Unfortunately, you fail to see that point.