Several overseas reports criticize the development of the situation exposing the candidates’ political immaturity and vulgarity of their kindred during the presidential election.
Mass media including the Reuter’s, the BBC, the Guardian, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Globe and Mail commented that Yun Seok-yol may be boycotted in the international arena in future ridiculing that he is a mere greenhorn in politics with only a prosecutorial career, he is an amateur who is unable to commit himself even on major policies, and he takes much interest in a claptrap policy without any political experience and is a very self-centered guy as obstinate as a mule.
The regime change in south Korea has put the next-term president to test, political revenge will likely be repeated as the predecessors were put behind the bars, because of his careless remarks such as a preemptive strike on the north and resolute reaction in the election campaign, the inter-Korean ties will be further aggravated, it is just a matter of time that the situation on the Korean peninsula takes a bad turn, they said.
