S Korea's Election Season: You've Got Mail

With just over a week left until South Korea’s presidential election, candidates are making last-ditch efforts to win voter support. The National Election Commission (NEC) recently mailed out packages containing pamphlets put together by each candidate. Last week, one of the packages arrived at my family’s home in Seoul. We all gathered around and excitedly opened the neatly sealed brown paper envelope, expecting to find thick piles of colorful posters consisting of aspiring manifestos ambitio