South Korea is holding local elections today.
Voters will be choosing some 4-thousand officials, including the mayors and governors of 17 cities and provinces, local councilors and education superintendents.
Our Ko Roon-hee is at a polling station in the Jongno district of central Seoul.
Roon-hee, have you seen some people coming in to vote?

Good morning, Mark.
The polling station opened just minutes ago at 6 a.m., so not a lot of people have arrived yet.
Administrators appointed by the National Election Commission are here, though, ready to greet voters as they do come,... and they are making sure everything is good to go.

In this year's election, candidates are competing for more than 4-thousand local administrative, legislative, and educational posts.
This includes 17 metropolitan mayors and provincial governors.
There are also by-elections being held to fill 12 vacant parliamentary seats.
Now, this election is special for South Korea… because it's the first election under the Moon Jae-in administration.
This might serve as an indicator of people's sentiment toward the liberal leader's young administration.
And voter interest has been very high. In fact, in last week's early voting period, turnout was over 20 percent.
That's higher than the local elections held in 2014… which came in at less than 12 percent. But voters need to keep in mind that unlike in early voting, when they could go to any polling station in the country,... today they have to go to the polling station assigned to them based on where they live.
That's all I have for now, but I will bring you more updates in our later newscast. Mark?