Soo Kim is a policy analyst at the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation and doctoral candidate at the Johns Hopkins University SAIS.
Campaign already branded the most distasteful in the country's history

People walk in a shopping district in Seoul on Nov. 29: there are signs that the South Korean public may be tired of the negative campaigning. © Reuters
Soo Kim is a policy analyst at the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation and doctoral candidate at the Johns Hopkins University SAIS.