Chong Won-o, the Democratic Party of Korea candidate for Seoul mayor, on the 30th called the high early voting rate "a reflection of citizens' will to evaluate and hold the incompetent Candidate Oh's 10 years to account, and of their expectations and hope for new leadership."
Meeting with reporters after a walking canvass at Jayang Traditional Market in Gwangjin District, Seoul, that day, Candidate Chong brought up allegations that Candidate Oh's side operated a comment team, saying, "I had felt that smear attacks were being carried out in an organized way. I'm just surprised there are reports that such a thing actually existed," and added, "It is astonishing that an incumbent mayor, who should be pursuing a policy-centered, clean election, could run a campaign centered on this kind of smearing and negativity, and in one sense it is regrettable in that this seems to be the only thing they can do."
He then urged, "Even now, stop the negativity and black smears and come back to a contest of policies."
On the high early voting rate, he said, "A high early voting rate is a very positive and good sign," adding, "For the past 10 years of Candidate Oh, people say there is nothing done, nothing memorable, so the will to judge '10 years of the incompetent Oh Se-hoon' is strong, and that will lead to early voting and to voting on election day."