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Overseas Election Campaign

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1.  Overseas election campaigns that citizens living abroad can participate in


  ○ Anyone who can campaign can do so at any time (including election day) in the following ways.

  


Allowed

Not Allowed


Text Message

Sending election campaign information via text messages (pictures, voice record, images, and videos allowed) 

A person who is neither a preliminary candidate nor a candidate sends a text message using automatic broadcast communication (a method of automatically selecting and sending recipients using a program even when the number of simultaneous recipients exceeds 20 or is less than 20)

Internet Webpage

Posting articles or videos on the Internet webpage, bulletin board, chat room, etc. 

An election campaign advertisement on the Internet webpage of an Internet media company by a person other than a candidate (in the case of a party-nominated candidate, the political party that nominated the candidate)

E-mail

Sending election campaign information via e-mail (refers to a system where computer users exchange information such as text, voice records, images, or video through a network) 

A person who is neither a preliminary candidate nor a candidate transmits e-mail through a transmission agency

  ○ Those who can campaign can use the telephone (limited to direct calls between the sender and receiver, excluding phones equipped with automatic computer-based transmitting devices) or verbal campaign (excluding the use of loudspeaker or when targeting a large number of people at an outdoor assembly) at any time other than election day.



2.  Overseas election campaigns that are only allowed for political parties and candidates

  ○  Political parties that nominate candidates in the elections for proportional representation members of the National Assembly may use satellite broadcasting facilities capable of overseas transmission within the Republic of Korea to broadcast advertisements up to 5 times per television and radio broadcasting facility during the election campaign period.

  ○  In the elections for proportional representation members of the National Assembly, two members of each political party appointed by the party's representative may make speeches on the air within one time for each television and radio broadcasting facility using satellite broadcasting facilities capable of overseas transmission within the Republic of Korea during the election campaign period.

  ○ Candidates (for the elections for proportional representation members of the National Assembly, the political party that recommended the candidate) may advertise on the Internet using the webpages of domestic Internet media outlets during the election campaign period.

  ○ (Preliminary) candidates can send text messages using the automatic broadcast method (up to 8 times in total)

  ○ (Prospective) candidates can send e-mail through consignment to a transmission agency.


3.  Activities of voting encouragement

 a. Allowed cases

  ○ An act of an individual or organization purely recommending participation in voting in their own name without supporting, recommending, or opposing a specific political party or candidate (including preliminary candidates).

  ※ It is possible for an individual or group capable of conducting an election campaign to engage in voting participation encouragement activities that include supporting, recommending or opposing a political party or candidate while conducting an election campaign in accordance with Article 59 of the Election Act.

 b. Not allowed cases

  ○ Visiting each house or room to encourage voting

  ○ Encouraging voting within 100 meters of an overseas polling station

  ○ Encouraging voting using fcilities such as banners, printed materials, loudspeakers, recorders, and tape recorders (including video and audio equipment) that display the name of a political party, the name or photo of a candidate (including prospective candidates), shoulder straps, tags, or other signs or content that can infer the name of political party or candidate (including preliminary candidate).