Chung Dong-Young Reverses Position on Elderly Voters?

Remember when Chung told elderly voters to stay home on Election Day? Someone in his party seems determined to make their votes count.

The police raided the Seoul city chapter office of the governing Uri Party yesterday, an action that was a first in this country and would have been unthinkable under Korea’s strongman presidents. The police were following up on complaints that the party may have enrolled about 100 elderly people “• and collected party dues from them “• without their knowledge.

Several possibilities come to mind, including the idea that someone meant to rake in some posthumous votes. Stay tuned.