In Korea, election night coverage becomes a visual feast again

South Korea's major television networks once again set out to package Wednesday's local elections as prime-time entertainment, layering CGI animation, pop-culture parody and, for the first time on a large scale, generative AI over their live vote counts.

In the election for mayors and provincial governors, along with hundreds of lower offices, President Lee Jae Myung's governing Democratic Party won most of the major races, while the conservative People Power Party held Seoul and its traditional ...