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Ballot chaos prompts legal doubts over NEC’s late-night voting extension

The National Election Commission’s decision to extend voting hours in Seoul after polling stations ran out of ballot papers is expected to face legal scrutiny, legal experts said Wednesday, though they view a revote as unlikely. NEC Secretary-General Huh Cheol-hoon apologized, saying the commission had caused “great confusion and concern” after ballot shortages forced voting to be suspended at some sites during the June 3 local elections. He said the NEC immediately sent additional ballot papers

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Police deployed to Songpa polling station amid standoff over ballot box removal

Dozens of police officers were deployed early Thursday to a polling station in Seoul’s Songpa District where citizens continued to block the removal of a ballot box after voting hours were extended due to a ballot paper shortage. According to police and other authorities, several dozen riot police officers were sent to the No. 2 polling station in Jamsil 7-dong at around 12:30 a.m. Thursday as the standoff continued. The deployment came as citizens at the site tried to prevent election officials

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Cheong Wa Dae urges NEC to take ‘responsible measures’ over ballot shortages

The presidential office urged the election watchdog Wednesday to take “responsible measures” after the agency acknowledged ballot shortages at 14 polling stations in Seoul during the local elections and issued a public apology. The National Election Commission admitted that ballots had run short at 12 polling stations in Songpa-gu and one each in Gangnam-gu and Gwangjin-gu, while issuing a public apology over the incident. “As a constitutional institution tasked with guaranteeing the people’s ri

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Ballot shortage sparks protest at Seoul polling station

A ballot shortage at a polling station in Seoul's Songpa-gu triggered a tense standoff late Wednesday, turning an election management failure into a dispute over voting rights as counting got underway in Korea's local elections. Crowds gathered at one of Jamsil’s polling stations after voting there was extended because of a shortage of ballots, Yonhap News Agency reported. Some protesters demanded that ballots cast at the station be invalidated and that the ballot box not be removed from the sit

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Ballot shortage delays poll closing in parts of Seoul

A digital watch shows 6:54 p.m. on Wednesday as voters line up at a polling station in Garak-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul, where ballot shortages delayed voting past the scheduled 6 p.m. closing time. (Yonhap)

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Some Seoul polling stations face ballot shortages amid high turnout

South Korea’s election authorities said Wednesday that some polling stations in Seoul’s Songpa-gu district temporarily ran short of ballots due to higher-than-expected voter turnout in the local elections. The National Election Commission said Wednesday afternoon that the Songpa-gu election commission was transporting additional ballots to affected polling stations. The commission said voters waiting in line would still be able to cast their ballots even after official voting hours ended at 6 p.

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Agricultural, fisheries firms to hire more skilled foreign workers

Businesses in the agriculture and fisheries sectors will be able to hire more foreign workers under the E-7-4 visa, after the Justice Ministry said Monday it would raise the employment cap for skilled foreign workers in the two sectors to 50 percent of each firm’s Korean workforce, up from the current 30 percent. The ministry said it decided to introduce the special quota increase starting in June, citing chronic labor shortages in the agriculture and fisheries sectors. Small businesses with few

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Samsung Electro-Mechanics, LG Innotek rally as AI parts shortage starts to lift prices

Samsung Electro-Mechanics and LG Innotek have become the latest focus of Korea’s AI hardware rally as a long-running bet on AI server components turns into a more urgent call on orders, supply shortages and possible price increases. The two stocks were already up sharply before this week, but the rally gained new force Friday. Samsung Electro-Mechanics closed at 2.127 million won, up 15.04 percent from the previous session, while LG Innotek ended at 1.458 million won, up 28.57 percent. That push

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Women’s restroom queue sparks debate over men’s room use

A group of women who lined up to use a men’s restroom at a highway rest area after the women’s facilities became overcrowded has sparked debate online, with some criticizing the move as an invasion of privacy and others pointing to chronic shortages of women’s restrooms at busy public facilities. The debate began after a post titled “Middle-aged women at Hwado Rest Area” was uploaded to the online community Bobaedream on Saturday. The writer said several women began waiting outside the men’s res

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Bolivia at 'breaking point,' president warns

Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz warned Wednesday that the country was at a "breaking point" after nearly a month of protests that have caused shortages of food, fuel and life-saving medicine. The US-backed Paz, who took office six months ago in the middle of the worst economic crisis in four decades, is battling a groundswell of fury over his center-right policies. The political capital La Paz has been besieged by low-income workers and members of the country's Indigenous majority calling for his

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Ballot chaos prompts legal doubts over NEC’s late-night voting extension

Police deployed to Songpa polling station amid standoff over ballot box removal

Cheong Wa Dae urges NEC to take ‘responsible measures’ over ballot shortages

Ballot shortage sparks protest at Seoul polling station

Ballot shortage delays poll closing in parts of Seoul

Some Seoul polling stations face ballot shortages amid high turnout

Agricultural, fisheries firms to hire more skilled foreign workers

Samsung Electro-Mechanics, LG Innotek rally as AI parts shortage starts to lift prices

Women’s restroom queue sparks debate over men’s room use

Bolivia at 'breaking point,' president warns