Regionalism is alive and well

This chart at the Korea Times shows how Korea is basically split down the middle.

Our Open Party (Uri) pretty much maxed-out its vote potential but didn't do too much along the eastern half of the country. Likewise, the Grand National Party faired poorly on the west coast, except for some areas in the swing Gyeonggi/Seol/Incheon districts (remember kids, its always all about what happens in Gyeonggi).

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[LLB]

Thanks, I've appreciated your coverage of the election.

[Sugar Shin]

Many thanks, Yangban, your great informative & entertaining coverage of the whole election madness and political analyses places you on top of the Korea bloggers.

[Won Joon]

This isn't completely on point but I didn't know where to ask. What is the difference between the Korea Herald & Korea Times in terms of ideological reputation, quality of writing, etc.?

[jh]

combined percentage of votes by region..

┏━━━━┯━━━━━┯━━━━━┯━━━━━┯━━━━┯━━━━┓

┃Region  │    GNP   │    MDP   │    Uri   │   ULD  │   DLP  ┃

┠────┼─────┼─────┼─────┼────┼────┨

┃        │ 8,083,609│ 1,698,368│ 8,957,665│ 569,083│ 920,229┃

┃Total   ├─────┼─────┼─────┼────┼────┨

┃        │     37.90│      7.96│     41.99│    2.67│    4.31┃

┠────┼─────┼─────┼─────┼────┼────┨

┃Seoul   │     41.31│      9.80│     42.87│    0.79│    3.46┃

┃Pusan   │     52.52│      0.80│     38.92│    0.30│    2.88┃

┃Taegu   │     62.44│      1.83│     26.77│    0.49│    2.57┃

┃Inchon  │     38.99│      5.21│     44.68│    0.68│    7.43┃

┃Kwangju │      0.12│     36.43│     54.01│    0.37│    5.57┃

┃Taejon  │     22.37│      3.25│     45.76│   22.09│    1.49┃

┃Ulsan   │     36.32│      0.57│     28.07│    0.81│   18.04┃

┃Kyonggi │     40.66│      6.66│     45.71│    0.70│    4.11┃

┃Kangwon │     43.42│      6.36│     38.84│    0.24│    4.15┃

┃Chungbuk│     32.56│      1.04│     50.45│    9.23│    3.33┃

┃Chungnam│     15.77│      3.64│     38.85│   33.72│    2.24┃

┃Chonbuk │      0.14│     18.67│     64.58│    0.14│    4.55┃

┃Chonnam │      0.84│     38.41│     46.86│    0.55│    2.55┃

┃Kyongbuk│     54.59│      0.43│     25.81│    0.57│    3.42┃

┃Kyongnam│     47.71│      0.57│     34.41│    0.59│    8.42┃

┃Cheju   │     40.17│      3.80│     49.38│    0.58│    3.40┃

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source: http://news.empas.com/show.tsp/20040416n04000/

[jtb]

Brilliant analysis!!

[WJK]

This looks like a Korean map about 1400 years ago. PaekChae vs Shilla. Kind of freaky, but fully expected.

Looks like the folks of Choong Chung Do are never going back to support Kyong Sang Do anymore.

Unless, politics truly turns toward conservatives vs liberals.

[SUP]

(NOTE: Yangban Edit)

Liberal party members. Conservative party members. What's the difference? They're all the (sweat love)ing same. They don't give a rat's (back side) about their own ideologies, they just use it to stay in power and hoard in "contributions". (Make sweat love to) 'em all.