Park Jin vs Sohn Hak-kyu

These past week it has been crazy. There were candidates on our campus streets and classes. They were coming into our media art and creative writing meetings. The April 9 election must be really big for the koreans. This has been my first time voting in Korea. Right now i can’t tell you who i voted for, but i can share my experience in my first voting in the election.

From Seoul there was Park Jin and Sohn Hak-kyu battling for the votes. Park Jin is fomr the Grand National Party, and Soh Hak-kyu was a former chairman of the United Democratic party. Both of the parties wives went out telling people to vote for their husband. They both did a lot of things to make the people listen to there voice, such as singing for them or sharing instant coffee with the people of seoul.

Both parties candidate promised to take care of the peoples problem. They both say things like “if you vote for me …..” and so on. I don’t think the 2004 election and the election now is much different. The only different part is that they try to spread the voices and name of their candidates more then usual.

I think of myself a political person, because i think about how our country is going around. I always see bad things getting reported on the news. I want to hear good things about our politics not bad things. Who would want to see your own candidate which you voted was not doing their job well? I always hope that they would try to solve the peoples problem first. They need to hear the citizens voice.

Right now I’m not interested in any of the parties, because i do not know a lot about them. I think this election is important for me, because it’s my first time voting. But i think its kinda unfair for me to vote for someone i do not know that well. I do not want to vote just because the other people around me are voting for that person.