Police disperse protestors at polling station, acquire ballot boxes
South Korean police on Friday dispersed hundreds of demonstrators at a polling station in southern Seoul who had blocked access to ballot boxes to protest the ballot shortage during Wednesday's local elections.
Mobile police units were dispatched at around 7:30 a.m. to Jamsil-dong, Songpa-gu, southern Seoul, where citizens had been at a stand-off with authorities since Wednesday evening.
The number of protestors reached as high as 1,400, according to police estimates shared at 11 p.m. Thursday.
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