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What social issues are at the heart of the South Korean presidential election?

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On March 9, South Koreans will elect their new president for a non-renewable five-year term.

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By: Nicolas Rocca Follow |

Emmanuelle Bastide

1 min

On March 9, South Koreans will elect their new president for a non-renewable five-year term.

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While the presidential campaign in South Korea has been marked by flights of fancy and crazy proposals from the two main candidates, such as Lee Jae-myung's proposal to pay for treatment against baldness by Social Security, many social issues campaigned, such as the issue of housing or the integration of migrants.

Seen from the West, the country appears to be deeply unequal and ultra-capitalist, but what is it in reality?

The resignation of Cho Dong-youn from her post as co-chairman of the Democratic candidate's campaign team following the revelation of a child born of an extra-marital affair has also brought to the fore the questions of sexism,

so how did issues of gender equality mark the presidential campaign?

What are the main social issues that have been debated by the candidates and what role will they play in the choice of voters?  

With :

Benjamin Joinau,

  anthropologist, associate researcher at

, Paris, and lecturer at Hongik University, Seoul

Hui-Yeon Kim

, sociologist and lecturer at 

Deputy Director of the

Antoine Coppola, 

film professor at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, South Korea

And an analysis by our correspondent in Seoul 

 on the feminist and anti-feminist movements in South Korea.  

Musical programming:

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– BTS 

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– Yazmin Lacey 

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