President Lee Jae Myung speaks during a meeting with delegates attending the Korea-Africa Foreign Ministers’ Meeting at the Blue House in Jongno District, central Seoul, on June 2. [NEWS1]
President Lee Jae Myung took to X on Wednesday — Election Day for the 2026 local elections — to encourage citizens to vote, invoking the words of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato.
"Have you voted so as not to be ruled by the worst and most ignoble, as Plato said?" he wrote.
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The post appeared to reference a quote attributed to the Greek philosopher: "The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
