South Korea presidential election in 2002

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16. Presidential election
December 19, 2002
Votes						24,784,963
voter turnout
						70.8% ▼  9.9%
			Sae-cheonnyeon-minju Party (Millennium Democratic Party)
			Raw Moo-hyun
			be right				12,014,277
									48.91%
			Hannara Party (Great National Party)
			Lee Hoi-chang
			be right				11,443,297
									46.49%
Election results
President of South Korea
Before the election of Kim Dae-jung Sae-jeongchi-gungmin-hoeui (National Congress on New Politics)						Elected Roh Moo-hyun Sae-cheonnyeon-minju party

The 16th presidential election in South Korea took place on December 19, 2002. According to the official final result of the South Korean Electoral Commission, Roh Moo-hyun of the Sae-cheonnyeon-minju party won the election with 48.9 percent of the vote. As a result, the leftist forces won the second consecutive presidential election after President Kim Dae-jung's tenure .

The decision on the new head of state was made by majority vote (without a possible runoff ) in one go. In South Korea, presidencies are limited to one term.

background

History and candidate selection

With Kim Dae-jung won in the presidential election in South Korea in 1997 for the first time the opposition candidate, the presidential election. His party Sae-jeongchi-gungmin-hoeui was renamed the Sae-cheonnyeon-minju party during his tenure .

In the internal primaries of the ruling and opposition parties, the clear favorites prevailed. Roh Moo-hyun , a former Gukhoe MP , won his party's primary election against six other candidates with 72.2% of the vote.

Lee Hoi-chang, who failed in 1997 because of Kim Dae-jung, led his second presidential election campaign. He prevailed in his party against three other candidates with 69% of the vote.

The Democratic Labor Party nominated the activist Kwon Young-ghil, who had already contested the 1997 presidential election in South Korea for the party.

The non-party Chung Mong-joon was also traded as a possible candidate for the office of president, as he was responsible for holding the extremely successful 2002 World Cup as president of the Korea Football Association . In surveys he was given good chances. However, Chung declared his support for Roh Moo-hyun because of the feared division of votes in the center-left camp. Just hours before the polls closed, Chung retracted his support for Roh due to disagreements over the intended political stance towards North Korea .

Results

Roh, like Kim Dae-jung , was able to win the country's big cities and the traditionally politically liberal regions in Jeolla-do in 1997 . Lee Hoi-chang recruited his support mainly from the traditionally conservative regions of Gyeongsang-do and Gangwon-do , where he had already been successful five years earlier.

Candidate	party	Votes	% of votes
Raw Moo-hyun	Sae-cheonnyeon-minju party	12,014,277	48.91%
Lee Hoi-chang	Hannara party	11,443,297	46.59%
Kwon Young-ghil	Democratic Labor Party	957.148	3.90%
Lee Han-dong	Union of the people of one nation	74.027	0.3%
Kim Gil-soo	Party of Defenders of the Fatherland	51.104	0.2%
Kim Yeong-Gyu	Socialist party	22,063	0.1%
Jang Se-dong	Non-party	canceled	-
Invalid votes		223,047	0.6%
(Number of voters: 34,991,529 - turnout: 70.8%) Total		24,784,963	100%

Sudogwon	Seoul	2,792,957	(51.3 ％)	2,447,376	(44.96 ％)
	Incheon	611,766	(49.83 ％)	547.205	(44.57 ％)
	Gyeonggi-do	2,430,193	(50.65 ％)	2,120,191	(44.19 ％)
Gangwon		316.722	(41.51 ％)	400.405	(52.48 ％)
Chungcheong	Daejeon	369,046	(55.09 ％)	226.760	(39.82 ％)
	Chungcheongbuk	365.623	(50.42 ％)	311,044	(42.89 ％)
	Chungcheongnam	474,531	(52.16 ％)	375.110	(41.23 ％)
Honam （Jeolla）	Gwangju	715.182	(95.18 ％)	26,869	(3.58 ％)
	Jeollabuk	966.053	(91.59 ％)	65,334	(6.19 ％)
	Jeollanam	1,070,506	(93.39 ％)	53.074	(4.63 ％)
Yeongnam （Gyeongsang）	Busan	587,946	(29.86 ％)	1,314,274	(66.75 ％)
	Ulsan	178.584	(35.27 ％)	267.737	(52.88 ％)
	Daegu	240.745	(18.68 ％)	1,002,164	(77.75 ％)
	Gyeongsangbuk	311,358	(21.65 ％)	1,056,446	(73.47 ％)
	Gyeongsangnam	434,642	(27.08 ％)	1,083,564	(67.52 ％)
Jeju		148.423	(56.05 ％)	105.744	(39.63 ％)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Howard W. French: Liberal Wins South Korea's Presidential Election . In: The New York Times . December 19, 2002, ISSN  0362-4331 ( online [accessed November 27, 2019]).
2. ↑ "세상 바꾸려 대통령 후보 나섰다 '20 억 기탁금 '목숨 걸고 싸울 터". September 9, 2002, accessed December 1, 2019 (Korean). 
3. ↑ SOUTH KOREA: Football boss wants to power . In: Spiegel Online . tape 34 , August 19, 2002 ( online [accessed December 1, 2019]).
4. ^ S Korean presidential race wide open . November 19, 2002 ( online [accessed December 1, 2019]).
5. ↑ Don Kirk: A Top South Korean Candidate Drops Out . In: The New York Times . November 25, 2002, ISSN  0362-4331 ( online [accessed December 1, 2019]).
6. ^ Byung-Kook Kim: The US — South Korean Alliance: Anti-American Challenges . In: Journal of East Asian Studies . tape 3 , no. 2 , 2003, ISSN  1598-2408 , p. 225-258 , JSTOR : 23417679 .