Jen & Jeff's Adventures

 
 

*This was supposed to be posted on Tuesday, I didn't realise that it didn't post when I thought it did!

For the past three or four weeks the twelve (now down to eleven) presidential hopefuls have been gearing up and campaigning with the hope of becoming the next president of South Korea.

The elections will take place tomorrow. Luckily for us the Koreans believe elections are important enough to give students and teachers (and who knows who else) the day off.

I'm looking forward to elections for the day off. Kelly and Sara, however, are looking forward to the elections so that the campaigning will stop. Let me give you a run down of how election campaigns work here.

*Every candidate is given a number. They do not campaign based on their name (ie. "Vote for Peter Petrelli") instead they campaign based on their assigned number (ie. "Vote for Number 6")

*Candidates use huge vans with video screens and music to encourage people to vote for them. Not only that, but they also have their supporters standing on the sidewalks bowing politely or dancing in support of their chosen candidate.

*These trucks BLAST music from early morning (8am in Sara and Kelly's neighbourhood) until late evening (9pm or later).

Here is a taste of the local campaigns. I danced with the Number Six supporters but unfortunately don't have any pictures of this.... I know others took pictures, I'll find them :)

~ Jen

 


Comments

maja

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:43:52

I would certainly vote for candidate number three. Although I heard a rumour that candidate number eight's dancers are superb. They could definitely take number three's dancers in a dance-off. This is a complicated decision.

 

Kelly

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:05:47

Number 2 won the election, but I don't know how. I don't ever remember seeing dancers in front of his truck! He did have the biggest speakers though...

 



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