Politicians do a funky dance for President Moon, and other Korean election leftovers

The Korean election is done! Here are a few tidbits about it.


Governer Ahn (안희정) congratulating President Moon on his election victory. Image: 2MOON好.COM


First, there was a pretty wacky campaign video that ran in support of Moon.

It featured a few fairly prominent politicians busting some dance moves, or trying to anyway. If you ever wanted to see the in-his-60s mayor of Seoul breakdance (yes, breakdance), now's your chance, at around the 0:52 mark.

The roster of people appearing is:

  • 안희정 - Ahn Hee-jung - Governor of Chungcheongnam. Also now known for his kissing Moon in that wacky photo (above). If memory serves, he also actually ran against Moon in the primaries. Just don't ask your doctor for a 충남주사 [The pun seems to come from combining 충남지사 "Chungcheon Governor" with 주사 "drunk behavior"].
  • 박원순 - Park Won-soon - Mayor of Seoul
  • 안민석 - An Min-suk - National Assembly member
  • 진선미 - Jeon Seon-mi - National Assembly member
  • 이재정 - Lee Jae-jeong - National Assembly member
  • 고민정 - Ko Min-jeong - former KBS TV newscaster
  • 박기량 - Park Ki-rang - Cheerleader with Lotte Giants baseball team
  • 김부겸 - Kim Bu-gyeom - National Assembly member. I believe he also ran against Moon in the primaries.
Here's the video:

[Update: sorry, the video has been removed]




Many foreign sites got into the election spirit with doodles and reminders too.

Here's Facebook reminding me to vote:





And Google had an extensive blog post about all the Korea-election goodies they produced, including their Now cards, election info, and of course that YouTube logo.


And of course they had election doodles on the Google homepage and on YouTube:

2017년 대한민국 선거



YouTube Korean election doodle. Image: Google


Meanwhile, Korean cable TV channel Super Action had a movie marathon this afternoon, the theme of which was "굿프레지던트" (Good President) which I can only assume was a nod to President Moon's straight-to-work approach, distinguishing him I guess from the former "Bad President". To celebrate, movies featuring "good presidents" aired. When I tuned it, it was Air Force One followed by Independence Day. 



Anyway, congratulations to President Moon.

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