- By 9 pm tomorrow night, it will be possible to know who becomes the next president. Vote counting will be done by 20,000 people as well as 1,377 machines (each machine can count 240-280 votes per minute) and will take approximately 4.5 hours.

Vote counting will be first done by machines which divides votes by candidates and counted by hands twice in order to ensure accuracy and fairness.

- In a press briefing yesterday, LMB appealed to the public to give him overwhelming supports for stable management of the government. He said he wanted to be elected by a sweeping majority of votes.

- The government passed a revised copyright law under which copyright protection period will be extended from 50 to 70 years.

- 57.3 per cent of 1,274 respondents aged from 20-50 say they feel stressed because of various election campaign related activities, reveals a poll by a career portal site (www.career.co.kr). Most of them say they are irritated by campaign noise (75.5%), followed by TV debates full of personal attacks (68.1%), and ridiculous election pledges (45.6%). 62.9 per cent say the stress will have some influence on their vote.

- The first-ever negotiation between the government and the group of 10 labor unions of public servants reached an agreement after 5-month-long bargaining.

- All major candidates put the finishing touches to their 22-day-long campaign activities today and they all stay in Seoul to meet as many voters face to face as possible.

- National Election Commission advised UNDP not to play in public the controversial video footage of LMB. It says it is against the election law to air in public rival candidates’ speeches or activities.