<Reporter>
The 20th presidential election will be held on Wednesday, March 9, three weeks after today (16th).
Today, the second day of the official election campaign, Democratic Party candidate Lee Jae-myung concentrated on the Gangnam and Songpa areas of Seoul, while People's Power candidate Yoon Seok-yeol chose the route that leads to Cheongju and Wonju via Gwangju and Jeonju.
Also, Justice Party candidate Shim Sang-jung met with voters in Honam for two consecutive days.
And Ahn Cheol-soo, the candidate of the People's Party, who completely halted the election campaign due to a fatal accident in a campaign bus, visited a mortuary in Cheonan, Chungcheongnam-do.
As the official election campaign began, candidates could use banners and campaign vehicles, and dance along with the logo song became possible.
Reporters Min-woo Kang, Kang-yun Hwa, and Ki-tae Kim will deliver the news of the presidential candidates in turn.
<Reporter Kang Min-woo>
Democratic Party candidate Lee Jae-myung started campaigning on the second day in Gangnam Station, Seoul, where shopping malls and young people are concentrated.
The key word was to create a 'Youth Opportunity Nation'.
[Lee Jae-myung/Democratic Presidential Candidate: I will tell you that I will make it a 'a country of youth opportunity', a country for our young people who are the greatest victims of polarization and low growth.]
Fostering the virtual asset market and public housing 30 % of young people have promised to sell first.
It is interpreted as a move to capture the votes of the citizens of Seoul, which is considered to be the biggest winner of the presidential election, and the youth in 2030.
He repeatedly emphasized that the state will take responsibility for the COVID-19 losses of small business owners and self-employed people by organizing an emergency supplementary budget.
We also proposed switching the quarantine system.
[Lee Jae-myung / Democratic Party Presidential Candidate: It is not a blockade method, but as flexible as possible, what I propose is 'smart quarantine' and 'economic booster shot'.
Everyone!]
At the Songpa campaign, where there are many apartment complexes, this candidate is planning to tap the real estate public by increasing the mortgage loan ratio up to 90% to first-time home buyers.
(Video coverage: Kim Nam-seong·Kim Yong-woo, video editing: Lee Seung-jin)
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<Reporter Hwa Gang-yun>
Candidate Seok-yeol Yoon, who ran his first campaign in Gwangju, a rough land of the people's power.
He appealed to the Democratic Party to break the Honam monopoly, citing former President Kim Dae-jung's sayings that he would take unemployment, corruption and local emotions to a deserted island.
[Yoon Seok-yeol / People's Power Presidential Candidate: The Democratic Party says that if they open their mouths, they will develop Gwangju and Jeonnam.
What has the local monopoly politician for decades done to the local people?]
He promised to develop it into an artificial intelligence base city, saying that Gwangju, which has the lowest gross domestic product in the region, does not even have a complex shopping mall.
It is interpreted as a strategy to achieve the target of 25% of the vote in Honam, centering on the youth who are disappointed with the Democratic Party.
In Jeonju, he set an angle with the passport, which attacked his 'corruption investigation' remarks as 'political retaliation'.
[Yoon Seok-yeol/People’s Power Presidential Candidate: How many mistakes are you making to deceive
the people by making strict corruption and establishing the rule of law as a frame of political retaliation?]
, and argued that it was a gold medal feeling to deceive the people.
(Video coverage: Kim Heung-ki, Kang Dong-cheol, video editing: Park Jeong-sam)
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<Reporter Kim Ki-tae>
Justice Party candidate Shim Sang-jeong said, 'For the second day in Honam, where the Democratic Party is strong, Lee Jae-myung and candidate Lee Jae-myung set out to differentiate themselves.
He visited the Yeongam shipyard and the mayor of Mokpo, Jeollanam-do, and criticized that "Lee's 'practical' is for the chaebol, not the workers."
[Sim Sang-jung / Justice Party presidential candidate: President Kim Dae-jung's human rights, Roh Moo-hyun's slave tax, and the anti-discrimination law.
Candidate Jae-Myung Lee or Sang-Jeong Shim?]
Candidate Shim emphasized the enactment of the 'Special Act on the Safety of Aged Industrial Complexes' while paying a tribute to the victims of the Yeosu explosion.
Ahn Cheol-soo, candidate of the People's Party, focused on fixing the 'charging car accident'.
Candidate Ahn, who stayed at the funeral home until 3 a.m., went down to Cheonan again late in the afternoon to guard the mortuary.
[Ahn Cheol-soo/People's Party Presidential Candidate: I can't help but be disappointed.
We will do everything we can to solve the accident.]
Candidate Seok-Yeol Yoon is also scheduled to visit the funeral tonight, so it seems that the first meeting will be held after candidate Ahn's proposal to unify the opposition.
(Video coverage: Yang Doo-won, video editing: Hwang Ji-young)
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