How does a person become a presidential candidate to run for office in your native country?
Korea is a democratic republic, which means it's a political system governed not by a king but by a president or a prime minister. Especially, Korea, like U.S., has chosen the presidential system. For the past decades, the military forcibly usurped the authority, and military dictators such as Park Jeong Hee, Jeon Du Hwan seized the power. But, with people's devoted sacrifice, we could get to vote a president by ourselves. It has been only 25 years. So, how are president candidates chosen?
First, let's take a look on qualifications to run for the presidential election. Candidates are supposed to be over age 40. Also, they must be person who has lived in Korea for at least five years. Of course, if they lost the right to be elected by court's sentence or other laws, they couldn't stand as a candidate regardless of two requirements above.
Normally, the election goes into effect on one year prior to the termination of an incumbent president's term of office. So, each party should choose candidates before. First of all, personnel who want to be a candidate can officially announce candidacy and, as a preliminary candidate, run the campaign from 240 days before the presidential election day.
The ways to elect parties' presidential candidate are different each other. There are two ways for that. One is by the leading members, and the other is by a primary election. Most parties use the latter way. A primary election is held for party members and non-party ones. Non-party members only mean people who already registered for the primary election.
Pre-candidates go all over the country and appeal to electorates. Primary elections are usually held nationwide by regions. After every each election, the candidate who got the most accumulated ballots finally becomes an official presidential candidate of the party. In general, he or she take over the all authority related to party works from the party leader.
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