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9 days before the presidential election, SBS directly listened to the public sentiments of major players across the country.

Today (28th), the first order is Gwangju, the heart of the Democratic Party.

Although the voices of the traditional support group called 'the Democratic Party' were loud, there were also many winds of change centered on the younger generation.



Reporter Kang Cheong-wan visited.



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In Gwangju, the so-called heart of the democratic camp, in the 18th presidential election in 2012, Moon Jae-in received 92% of the votes, and in the 19th presidential election in 2017, Moon Jae-in received 61.1% and Ahn Cheol-soo 30.1%.



Will this vote continue in this election as well?



Let's look at the results of the Gwangju Opinion Poll by 3 terrestrial broadcasters including SBS on the 17th and KBC, the Gwangju local public broadcaster last week.



Democratic Party candidate Lee Jae-myung ranked in the mid to late 60%, and People's Strength candidate Yoon Seok-yeol in the early 10%.



Middle-aged citizens in their 40s and 50s are confident of their strong support for Lee Jae-myung, saying that there will be no surprises.



[Im Ki-soon / Gwangju Seo-gu: I think Lee Jae-myung is the best.

He looked a little smart.

Shouldn't the president be a bit wild?]



[Han Myung-hoon/Gwangju Buk-gu: Is Yun Seok-yeol a yangban who dreamed of being president?

How to become a head of state if you know what to do...

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The point to watch is the so-called young voters.



Even here in Gwangju, the winds of change are blowing around the 2030 generation.



In a KBC survey of respondents in their 20s, Lee Jae-myung 32.6 percent and Yoon Seok-yeol 21.6 percent, the gap was only 11 percentage points.



[Park So-hee / Gwangju Dong-gu (20s): I think candidate Yoon Seok-yeol is better.

I think it’s a little better than Candidate Jae-myung Lee.]



[Jung Yun-ho/Gwangju Dong-gu (20s): People’s Power I think that if there is a competent candidate in the party, it is worth taking a shot.]



Leaving the party, it ranks 15th among 17 metropolitan governments nationwide There are also more voices than ever that they want candidates to solve local issues such as gross regional output and job shortages in the region.



[Moon Hee-chang / Gwangju Dong-gu: Jobs are the most important thing.

It's very difficult right now.

A lot of jobs are disappearing.] There was a lot



of debate over the promise to attract the Gwangju complex shopping mall, which the people threw as a win-win against the Democratic Party, which advocated for the development of a city specializing in artificial intelligence.



[Han Su-an / Gwangju Nam-gu: According to Yoon Seok-yeol's interview, there are market merchants and they say that if they enter the shopping complex, they will all perish, but that is nonsense.

I went to the market and interviewed it.]



[Park So-hyun/Gwangju Seo-gu: I am also wondering if it is true that a lot of small business people die just because (shopping mall) comes in, and I personally have a little desire to go to another country because of that (shopping mall)…

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We also heard expectations about Justice Party candidate Shim Sang-jung, who has a comparative advantage in the progressive supporters, and National People's Party candidate Ahn Cheol-su, who once claimed to be the leader of Honam.



Candidate Shim seems to be on the side of workers and the powerless, because candidate Ahn has the most honest and clean image.



Between the overwhelming 90% of votes that the Democratic Party wants and the 30% that the people expect, the scale of Gwangju's people is slowly moving.



(Video coverage: Hyung Yoon, video editing: Ji-young Hwang, CG: Kyung-rim Kang)