So Wednesday's election day here - not presidential, but rather the local representatives. And it's a holiday. Yaaaaaaaay, no work!
We mentioned before that Korean elections are a strange mixture of awesome & annoying as all hell, mostly due to things like this:
[In Seoul (I believe), not filmed by us]
This is the kind of thing we encounter just while walking around.
The older fellow in blue? Their handler/organizer.
The older lady in pink? A random adjumma who decided to get groovy.
The move the main dancer makes at 1:00? Trying to hand out a flyer to passerby. We have to dodge this move a LOT. The whole "Yeah, I'm a foreigner, I obviously can't vote in your elections" thing only works on some people.
During last year's election cycle, we had four different groups representing four different people at a 4-way stop. It was chaos. Each had their own custom van with backdrop, music, dance, and flyers. Oooooh my god.
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