Election Advertising Blizzard Starts

Campaign advertisements for Thousand National Party presidential campaigner Spike Lee Myung-bak on the Internet.

The election advertisement political campaign by political political parties and presidential campaigners kicked off in earnest with efforts to pull the attending of 37 million electors on Wednesday. The two biggest parties, the United New Democratic Party and the Thousand National Party were naturally at the forefront.

The UNDP and the gross national product decided to set a sum of 60 advertisements -- 30 each on television for up to W22 million (US$1=W931) a piece and the radiocommunication -- until Dec. 18, the legal deadline. Each political party will also set 70 advertisements in newspapers, each of which bes up to W67 million. Each party's campaigner and his protagonists will do a sum of 22 addresses on TV. Each 20-minute premier clip address on television costs up to W450 million.

On the Internet, the GNP¡¯s Spike Lee Myung-bak and the UNDP¡¯s Chung Dong-young tin be seen in a roseola of picture clips. The gross national product decided to pass about W5 billion on Internet advertisement to expose its campaigner to the netizens a sum of some 30 billion times. The UNDP will pour about W3 billion into online advertising. The political parties will also direct textual matter messages to electors -- the gross national product a sum of 35 million and the UNDP a sum of 2 million. For e-mail advertising, which is free and allowed limitlessly, the gross national product have already obtained the computer addresses of some 300,000 people and the UNDP is preparing to follow suit.

Stills from the election political campaign pictures of major presidential candidates: (from left) Chung Dong-young of the United New Democratic Party, Spike Spike Lee Myung-bak of the Thousand National Party and independent campaigner Lee Hoi-chang /Yonhap

Political Campaign vehicles transport the two candidates¡¯ mental images through the streets. About 270 such as vehicles each from the two political parties are already crisscrossing every nook and corner of the country. The two political parties have got allocated about W20 billion to W30 billion for their praseodymium efforts.

The political parties are mobilizing tremendous force resources. The UNDP have about 1.3 million political party members, in improver to the concerted figure of 150,000 to 200,000 members of assorted sorts of private support organisations such as as People Communication with Chung Dong-young and the Forum on Peace and the Economy.

In a recent campaign, the gross national product have recruited 400,000 new members, increasing the sum figure of members to about 1.7 million. The resistance political party integrated all of its private organisations last calendar month into one single incorporate organisation -- the 2007 Korean Peninsula Advanced People's Solidarity, a organic structure with 1 million enrolled members. Members of the gross national product and the private organisation have got been conducting a word-of-mouth campaign, canvassing some electors directly or making telephone phone calls to others. gross national product members and functionaries of the old regional gross national product chapters will do a sum of 10 million telephone phone calls to voters. The gross national product and UNDP also program to print two issues of newsletters, a sum of 200,000 to 300,000 transcripts each.

Such a monolithic praseodymium safety blitz is pie-in-the-sky for minor candidates. Mugwump and twice-defeated presidential campaigner Spike Lee Hoi-chang, World Health Organization is currently the runner-up in the blessing ratings, said, "I didn't cognize that it would be so hard for an independent campaigner to carry on a campaign. Such a hugely expensive political campaign is impossible for me." Spike Lee bes after to set 10 advertisements in newspapers, and 15 advertisements each in television and radio. He almost gave up the thought of television speeches, which be the most, but is now considering devising three five-minute addresses on television in the last phase of his campaign.

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