Lee’s X posts on Election Day urging voters draw opposition backlash

President Lee Jae Myung’s repeated appeals on Election Day for South Koreans to exercise their right to vote, delivered through a series of social media posts, triggered backlash from the opposition party on Wednesday.

Lee had posted four times on X encouraging voter participation as of 3 p.m. Wednesday, as South Korea was holding local elections and by-elections for National Assembly seats.

Lee pointed to the country’s excessively high housing and real estate prices as one factor behind the und