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KOREA - Public Offical Election Act

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Article 60

(Election Campaigns by Preliminary Candidates, etc.)

(1) Any preliminary candidate may wage an election campaign in a manner falling under any one of the following subparagraphs:

1. Establishing an election campaign office under Article 61 (1) and (6) (proviso), or installing or posting the signboards, tablets or hanging placards at the said election campaign office;

2. Personally handing out the name cards of not more than nine centimeters long nor more than five centimeters wide, that state his/her own name, photograph, telephone number, academic background (refers to the regular academic background and the academic background completed in a foreign educational course equivalent thereto; the same shall apply hereafter in subparagraph 4), career and other matters necessary for publicity or appealing for support from voters: Provided, That the same shall not apply to the act of offering such name cards to the voters or appealing for support from them at the premises of subway stations and other open places where the multitudes pass or gather and which are stipulated by Regulations of the National Election
Commission;

3. Deleted; <by Act No. 11374, Feb. 29, 2012>

4. Sending by mail as stipulated by National Election Commission Regulations by three days before the commencing date of election period, after producing the printed matters carrying his/her photograph, name, telephone number, academic background, career and other matters (hereinafter "campaign materials of preliminary candidate") necessary for publicity within a number equivalent to 10/100 of the number of households located within the constituency and obtaining a confirmation on the objects for forwarding and number of sheets, etc. from the competent election commission. In such cases, the preliminary
candidates for the presidential election and for the election of heads of local governments shall publish the campaign pledges and the goal, priority order, execution procedures, term of execution and plans for raising funds for each project as a promotion plan therefor on the pages of 50/100 or more of the total pages, including the cover page, and the matters concerning other political parties or persons who intend to be a candidate shall not be inserted on the pages on which aforesaid matters are inserted;

5. Wearing shoulder belts or marks indicating a preliminary candidate for conducting an election campaign;

6. Appealing for support by means of direct telephone conversations between a telephoner and a telephonee;

7. Deleted. <by Act No. 11374, Feb. 29, 2012>

(2) Any one falling under any of the following subparagraphs may hand out name cards of a preliminary candidate or appeal for support from voters
under paragraph (1) 2, in order to conduct an election campaign for a preliminary candidate:

1. Spouse and lineal ascendants or descendants of a preliminary candidate;

2. Election campaign manager or election campaign workers who accompany a preliminary candidate or assistants under Article 62 (4);

3. Each person designated by a preliminary candidate or the spouse thereof, from among persons accompanying a preliminary candidate or the spouse thereof.

(3) Any preliminary candidate who intends to mail the campaign materials of preliminary candidate pursuant to paragraph (1) 4 may file an application with the head of each Gu/Si/Gun for the delivery of the names and addresses of householders (hereafter in this Article referred to as the "roll of householders") who are electors within the scope of the number of mails and the head of each Gu/Si/Gun shall, upon receiving the application, prepare and deliver without delay the roll of householders, notwithstanding the provisions of other Acts.

(4) The application for the delivery of the roll of householders provided for in paragraph (3) shall be filed in writing within five days before the candidate registration period commences and expenses incurred in preparing the roll of householders shall be paid when the application is filed.

(5) The provisions of Article 46 (4) shall apply mutatis mutandis to the prohibition against transferring, lending, and using the roll of householders issued under the provisions of paragraph (3). In such cases, the term "electoral register" shall be deemed the "roll of householders".

(6) The specification, number of pages and indication of grounds, etc. for drawing up campaign materials of preliminary candidate and the standards
of shoulder belts or marks, the application for the delivery of roll of householders, the payment of expenses and other necessary matters shall
be determined by National Election Commission Regulations.

[This Article Newly Inserted by Act No. 7189, Mar. 12, 2004]