No. 19 January 19 2013 19 Regionalism at the 19 th National Assembly Elections Focusing on the Yeongnam and Honam Region Yasurou Mori As the biggest issue of contemporary politics at South Korea, there is regionalism. In Korea, Regionalism means that the voting behavior of the electorate that was exposed in the general election of all legislators and presidential elections since 1987. Each time the election of national level is carried out, regionalism has been predicted as the weakening the mature of citizenship. However, regionalism was strongly exposed by all election results. For example, the phenomenon of regionalism was also shown in the 19th generation parliamentarian elections to be conducted on 11 April 2012. This paper is analyzing the results of the election of Yeongnam and Honam region. Following the analysis of this paper, Senuri Party which is supported at Yeongnam district got lots of votes at the their field and Democratic Union Party which is supported by Honam also got many votes from Honam area. But if we concretely analyzed the result of election, we can find interesting point. That is to say, four candidates who do not involve at Senuri Party were elected in Yeongnam region. On the other hand, all candidates of Democratic Union Party were elected in Honam district. This result shows the fact that there is still strong regionalism in Honam district. Nevertheless, someone insists that there is not regionalism at Korea politics any more. However, this paper is going to analyze how is regionalism transformed and the characteristics and properties of constituency candidates at this election. And then, the meaning regionalism might be argued as the big issue for deciding the election result of the presidential election the 18 th of December 2012. I. 19 2012 4 11 18 19 4 2012 12 19 1987 129
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