After the impeachment of former President Park Geun-hye, the 20s who were strong allies of the progressive camp turned their backs. The conservatives, who had hesitated to cut the voting age by 18, rather attacked the’first voting in life’ voters and brought in their twenties to the streetcar.
4.7 The biggest difference between re-election and previous election phases is the dissension of people in their twenties. According to a public opinion survey commissioned by Maeil Economic Daily and Hangil Research on the 25th (confidence level of 95%, sample error ±3.3%), among voters in their 20s over 18 years of age, Se-hoon Oh’s support for the Mayor of Seoul was 34.7%, along with Park Young-seon. The support of the Democratic Party mayor of Seoul was 20.3%, showing a difference of 14.4%p. There are many analyzes that the Democratic Party and the passport suffered the LH crisis with such a change of mind in their 20s, and that they touched the ‘adversity’ in their 20s, which was sensitive to fairness, and the party approval rate led to a drop in Park’s approval rate. Candidate Park is also recognizing this situation and is advocating a character theory rather than emphasizing the political party in the youth field.
However, if you look at the democratic party’s party support trend announced in the last few weeks, the gap between Park and Oh’s in their 20s since the 25th, when the election campaign began in earnest, widens more than the gap in party approval ratings for the power of the Democratic Party and the people. According to a real meter survey commissioned by YTN on the 26th, the support rate of the people in their 20s was 31.6%, and the Democratic Party approval rate was only 6.1%p. In the end, candidate Park’s own goals were more than the party’s.
People in their twenties contend that the point when they were disappointed with Park was after the remarks of the convenience store “unmanned store” on the first day of the election campaign. “I don’t understand the way I think about it,” said Kim Mo (27), a job-prepared student preparing to join a public company. Candidate Park’s remarks that “Twenties have little historical experience” is also a problem, but such a generational theory is a mistake that comes out every election, while the convenience store remarks touched the employment issue shared by the whole generation in their twenties.
Candidate Park’s strategy to focus on the negatives in the second half of the election seems to have served as a concession for voters in their twenties. Kim Mo (26), who is a student at a university in Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, said, “Elections aren’t the best, but the worst,” he said. In particular, he added, “In the case of the suspicion of Naegok-dong, the contents became more and more complicated, so I did not pay much attention to the contents later.”
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