An official at the National Election Commission looks at monitors showing CCTV screens installed at locations storing ballot boxes from early voting, in Gwacheon, South Korea, 31 May 2026, as the country is set to hold nationwide regional elections and parliamentary by-elections on 03 June. Photo by YONHAP / EPA
June 1 (Asia Today) -- Seoul police are investigating 304 election crime cases tied to South Korea's June 3 local elections and have arrested three suspects accused of assaulting campaign workers, officials said Monday.
Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency Commissioner Park Jung-bo told a regular news briefing that police had received 322 cases linked to the local elections and were investigating 304 of them.
Park said the number and types of alleged offenses were broadly similar to those seen during the previous local elections.
Police are also responding to election crimes involving artificial intelligence after revisions to the Public Official Election Act added new AI-related provisions. Eight AI-related cases are under investigation, but no arrests have been made in those cases.
