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Elections provide voters not only with an opportunity to decide who will govern the country but also with a chance to express how they view politics as a whole. Just before the 2012 presidential election it appeared that Korean party politics was at the crossroads as public dissatisfaction with the existing party politics was prevalent. Many people wanted an extensive transformation of politics, and some hoped for the possibility of “new politics.”
Financial support from The Japan-Korea Cultural Foundation and the University of Niigata Prefecture is gratefully acknowledged.
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Kang, WT. (2015). South Korea’s 2012 Presidential Election. In: Inoguchi, T. (eds) Japanese and Korean Politics. Asia Today. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137488312_6
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