• Workers check voters information at an early polling location for the presidential election in Seoul on Friday. South Korea kicked off two days of early voting Friday as the country battles a record wave of coronavirus infections, while data showed inflation unexpectedly accelerated in February as rising costs weighed on voters. | BLOOMBERG
    Workers check voters information at an early polling location for the presidential election in Seoul on Friday. South Korea kicked off two days of early voting Friday as the country battles a record wave of coronavirus infections, while data showed inflation unexpectedly accelerated in February as rising costs weighed on voters. | BLOOMBERG
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Voters in the central South Korean city of Cheongju have backed the winning presidential candidate in the last seven elections. This time around, there is no clear candidate building a wave of support just days before the poll.

“It’s a curse,” Kim Yoon-sun, a resident in her 60s, said of the city’s notoriety as the king of swing districts. “Election? Oh dear. Don’t even ask, please,” she said, calling it the most disappointing presidential race she has seen.

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