Ahn Cheol-soo heads to key swing province of Chungcheong-do

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189 بار بازدید - 7 سال پیش - 안철수 후보, 격전지 충청 표심
안철수 후보, 격전지 충청 표심 잡겠다
 Presidential candidate Ahn Cheol-soo has a history with Chungcheong-do Province that stretches back decades.
He was once a professor at KAIST, a research university in the city of Daejeon, and it's also here in the nation's central region that he launched his "youth talk concert" series that made him famous among Koreans in their 20s and early 30s.

 Seven years later, Ahn is back as a presidential candidate - his first stop: Korea's mini administrative capital of Sejong City.

  "Of all the candidates, I'm the only one with a pledge for Sejong in the top ten campaign pledges. I vow to move the official administrative capital from Seoul to Sejong City if I'm elected president."

Highlighting work inefficiency because of the distance between the presidential office and the National Assembly in Seoul and many government ministries in Sejong, Ahn insisted it would be more reasonable to make Sejong City the sole center for Korea's administrative affairs.

   "Now more than ever, the country must make sure there's equal growth across different regions. The relocation to Sejong would also help decentrallizr political and economic power, which has been overwhelmingly concentrated in Seoul."

 On his second stop, the medical doctor by training headed to the Osong Medical Innovation Foundation.
The state-of-the-art research center is focused on developing new medicine and medical equipment.
There, he stressed the value of integration and convergence across disciplines.

 Of course, street campaigning was also on his itinerary; mingling with voters on a crowded street in Cheongju City.

Chungcheong-do has a long track-record of being a bellwether province with no strong tendency of voting for a conservative or a liberal party,.. making it fertile ground for moderate politicians like Ahn Cheol-soo.

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 With the latest opinion surveys showing a widening gap between Ahn and frontrunner Moon Jae-in, the center-left People's Party nominee is going all out to win over hearts here* in the casting-vote inland Chungcheong-do Province.
Kim Jung-soo, Arirang News, Cheongju.



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