Ruling Party Leader Wants to End Local Voting Rights for Chinese Nationals in Living in South Korea
Kim Gi-hyeon does make a good point and this proposal would encompass more than just Chinese nationals:
The leader of the ruling People Power Party (PPP) on Tuesday suggested scrapping the voting rights of Chinese nationals living in South Korea, saying that vice-versa is not the case.
Rep. Kim Gi-hyeon made the remark in an address at the National Assembly as leader of a parliamentary negotiating bloc, saying relations between South Korea and China should be based on the principle of reciprocity.
“At the time of the local elections in June last year, about 100,000 Chinese nationals residing here had the right to vote. However, no suffrage is guaranteed at all for our people in China,” Kim said during the address.
“Why should we be the only one opening the latch? What is fair would be not to give voting rights to foreigners from countries that do not give our people voting rights,” he said.
Since 2005, South Korea has given foreigners the right to vote in local elections if three years have passed since they gained permanent residency. Some critics have said the law gives Chinese too much say in local politics.
Yonhap
You can read more at the link, but it will be interesting to hear what the Chinese response to this will be.
Don’t let foreigners vote. That’s how it starts.
They congregate in one place, make a no-go zone, and bring their third world problems to stable, predictable, constantly-improving Korea.
Let Koreans alone decide the direction of the nation. Don’t let that decision fall to non-Koreans who may have very different values and goals.
If Korea was on the wrong track, foreign influence would be good. But Korea generally takes the constructive foreign influence it wants and rejects the harmful foreign influence.
Letting foreigners vote allows foreign influence on Korea without a Korean filter.
DON’T ALLOW IT.
Don’t let any foreigner vote in a Korean election. Korean elections for Korean citizens only. (kick all the red chinese out of the country is a good idea too.)
The only people who want Foreigners voting in Korea are people who hate Korea.
So why doesn’t the US do that?
America used to succeed because of the Melting Pot. Everybody became American… including the Chinese.
Now that Diversity is Our Strength (it isn’t) maybe it is time to consider your idea.
Korea succeeds becasue it is Korean… not Chinese… or American. Korean.