{"id":263334,"date":"2026-06-03T01:55:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T16:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tenbizt.com\/en\/news\/uncategorized\/2026\/06\/03\/can-foreigners-vote-in-south-korea-new-rules-for-2026-local-elections\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T01:55:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T16:55:30","slug":"can-foreigners-vote-in-south-korea-new-rules-for-2026-local-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenbizt.com\/en\/news\/politics\/2026\/06\/03\/can-foreigners-vote-in-south-korea-new-rules-for-2026-local-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Foreigners Vote in South Korea? 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K-style local government this time: foreign residents can say \\&#8221;I voted!\\&#8221; \u2014 not for presidential elections, but yes for local ones; foreign nationals can vote after holding permanent residency (a green card) for three years 5. Elected without any votes? \u2014 when a race has no challenger, the unopposed candidate is declared the winner and no vote is held 6. From everyday life to local politics: candidates with unconventional backgrounds have entered the race \u2014 could they become our neighborhood \\&#8221;Avengers\\&#8221;? 7. Not textbooks \u2014 campaign leaflets: seven teenage candidates registered; the youngest was born in May 2008. Small but meaningful details \u2014 election tidbits Yonhap News TV \u2014 story tips and inquiries: KakaoTalk\/Line jebo23; Kim Kyung-mi (vividmei@yna.co.kr)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article discusses voting rules, election outcomes, and the inclusion of foreign residents in local elections in Korea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/cdn-union.tenbizt.com\/contents\/crawler-dev\/thumbnail\/2026\/06\/CP-2023-0139\/thumb-834cf13a-54ae-4731-8e92-4f4d5bcafc43.jpg","footnotes":""},"categories":[278093],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Can Foreigners Vote in South Korea? 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