Moon declares presidential bid via social media
Moon Jae-in of the Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) declared his bid for the presidency in a recorded video posted on major social media platforms, Friday.
Under the slogan of “Citizens and Moon Running Together,” the campaign team posted three video clips, titled “Altogether,” “Moon Jae-in” and “Overseas Residents” on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube at 10 a.m.
“I’m determined to change politics based on wishes from all people that the nation should be different from the past,” he said. “Korea must be a fair country where common sense prevails. Its society must be one where justice is seen, heard and felt.”
Except the first two sentences read by Moon, various people from 26 locations — cities across Korea, Florida, Seattle, Spain, Mexico, Hong Kong, Singapore, Germany, China and United Kingdom — read a supportive statement. Around 5,000 citizens participated in this project, according to Moon’s camp.
People from all walks of life — from a foreign worker and a career woman with a baby to a disabled person and a man who has family in North Korea — delivered their wishes for the next administration.
They expressed hopes that Moon will win the May 9 presidential election and rebuild the nation. The poll will be held earlier than originally scheduled following the Constitutional Court’s ruling to remove the scandal-hit President Park Geun-hye.
For the 2012 U.S. presidential election, Barack Obama produced a video clip featuring citizens’ diverse voices, as did Hillary Clinton last year. Typically, presidential candidates here have chosen a specific site to show off their unique backgrounds.