Bizarre candidate attracts 96,756 votes

Hur Kyung-young came in first among four minor candidates with 96,756 votes or 0.4 per cent of support rate. He ran in three previous presidential elections, but couldn’t attract a teeny attention.

Many people couldn’t decide whom to vote for until very last minute, however, he managed to succeed in, at least, letting people recognize his name, with outrageous and quirky election pledges.

His main promises were moving the UN headquarters to the DMZ area, reducing the number of representatives to 100, giving W100m to newly-married couple, W30m to woman who gives birth, scrapping political party system, monthly doling out W700,000 to old people aged more than 60.

Among 5,974 election-related UCCs posted on Freechal, from Nov 27 to Dec 19, UCCs about Mr. Hur were replayed 336,952 times, more than Lee Myung-bak’s 329,606, which shows netizens’ interest in his bizarre claims and attitudes.

He claims that he was sent from Heaven and former president Park Jung-hee specially scouted him to work for Park because he has an IQ of 430. He also said “politics by people with an IQ of 100 is just like kid’s playing games.”