section_path: Campaign developments/Voting
section_name: Voting
paragraph_text: Voting
  
  Overseas voting began on 19 May, with more than 258,000 South Korean nationals eligible to vote at 223 polling stations across 118 countries until 25 May. Turnout was estimated to be at 79.5%, the highest since the introduction of absentee voting in South Korea in 2012.
  
  Early voting in South Korea was held on 29 and 30 May, with a turnout of 34.74%. On 29 May, a contract employee of the NEC was arrested in Gangnam and subsequently dismissed for casting a vote on her husband's behalf before casting another vote for herself. The NEC's chair, Roh Tae-ak, and secretary general Kim Yong-bin apologized amid criticism over incidents of poor ballot management during early voting, including the double-voting incident and ballots being taken outside polling stations by queuing voters. Roh also accused a civic group raising an election fraud claim of systemically interfering in the running of the vote, saying that some NEC workers sustained injuries and that a break-in occurred at the office of an election watchdog.