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| People wait in line for a polling station to open in Seoul's Gangnam District, early in the morning on June 1. The voting started at 6 a.m. at 14,465 polling stations nationwide. Yonhap |
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| Prime Minister Han Duck-soo greets officials and monitors the progress of local elections at the Ministry of Interior and Safety office in the Government Complex in Sejong, June 1. Yonhap |
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| A voter with his daughter confirms his identity before receiving ballot slips at a polling station in Busan, June 1. Yonhap |
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| A voter wearing plastic gloves holds ballot slips in Seoul's Gangnam District, June 1. Overall, 17 metropolitan mayors and provincial governors, 226 lower-level administrative leadership positions, 872 seats in provincial and metropolitan councils and 2,988 in lower-level local councils will be elected though local elections. |
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| A voter enters a booth at a polling station in Ulsan, June 1. Yonhap |
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| People vote in polling booths at a polling station in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province, June 1. Yonhap |
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| A voter wearing plastic gloves stuffs an envelope containing ballots into a ballot box at a polling station in Ulsan, June 1. Yonhap |
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| Yoo Bok-yeop, second from left, a senior teacher at Yangji Village School dressed in a "dopo," a traditional men's outer garment, and his family drop off their ballots together at a polling station in Nonsan, South Chungcheong Province, June 1. Yonhap |
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| A voter responds to an exit poll after voting in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province, June 1. Yonhap |
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| Voters show voting stamps on their hands after having voted in Seoul's Seocho District, June 1. Yonhap |
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