Young voters gather to challenge election results

On Sunday morning in southern Seoul, the scene did not look like the election-related rallies South Korea has grown used to in recent years.

A crowd had gathered outside the SK Olympic Handball Gymnasium, where ballot boxes from Jamsil 7-dong’s second polling station were brought for vote counting after a ballot paper shortage was reported there.

Young men and women stood alongside parents with babies and children, while a few US flags were visible among those calling for a rerun of Wednesday’s