Overseas Election Campaining

• 1. Overseas election campaigning that overseas citizens can do

  ○ Anyone who can do election campaigning can do it at any time (including election day) in the following ways:

  - Sending campaign information by sending text messages (pictorial, voice, image, video possible)

  - Posting text or video on Internet homepages or bulletin boards, chat rooms, etc.

  - Sending campaign information by e-mail (a system that allows computer users to exchange information such as text, voice, image, or video through a network)

  
  

  ○ Anyone who is allowed to campaign may do so at any time other than election day, by telephone (limited to direct calls between the sender and receiver, excluding telephones with computer-based automatic transmission devices installed) or through speech (excluding cases where a loudspeaker is used or where the campaign is aimed at a large number of people at an outdoor rally).

• 2. Overseas campaigning only for political parties and candidates

  ○ A political party that recommended a candidate in the proportional representation election may broadcast advertisements up to 5 times on each television and radio broadcasting facility using satellite broadcasting facilities in Korea that can be broadcast overseas during the election campaign period.

  ○ In the proportional representation election, two representatives of each political party may deliver speeches on each television and radio broadcasting facility using satellite broadcasting facilities in Korea that can be broadcast overseas during the election campaign period.

  ○ Candidates (in the case of the proportional representation election, the political party that recommended the candidate) may advertise online using the homepages of domestic internet media companies during the election campaign period.

  ○ (Prospective) candidates may send text messages using the automatic simultaneous communication method (up to 8 times in total).

  ○ (Prospective) candidates may send e-mails through a transmission agency.

• 3. Voter Participation Encouragement Activities

  A. Possible Cases

  ○ An act of an individual or group soliciting voter participation purely in their own name without supporting, recommending, or opposing a specific political party or candidate (including a prospective candidate)

  ※ An individual or group that is permitted to campaign may conduct voter participation solicitation activities that include supporting, recommending, or opposing a political party or candidate while campaigning in accordance with Article 59 of the Public Official Election Act

  B. Possible Cases

  ○ In the case of visiting each house to solicit voter participation

  ○ In the case of soliciting voter participation within 100 meters of an overseas polling station

  ○ An act of soliciting voter participation by using facilities such as banners, printed materials, loudspeakers, recorders, and video equipment (including video and audio equipment) that display the name of a political party or the name or photo of a candidate (including a prospective candidate), or content that can be inferred from such name or name, sashes, signs, or other markings