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The latest event of the MCC Election Night series focused on the South Korean election. Renowned experts analyzed the possible outcomes of the elections, the country's political, economic and social system, as well as the past, present and future of Hungarian-South Korean relations.
The first panel discussion featured Levente Pallos, an East Asia expert, businessman, former Seoul foreign economic attaché, Gábor Tóth, a foreign policy journalist and reporter from Hír TV, and Dr. János Setényi, a historian on behalf of MCC, addressed the country's domestic political situation and the stakes of the election.
The second discussion took a closer look at Korea’s foreign economy and investments abroad as well as the rapidly developing Hungarian-South Korean cooperation in several sectors, with György Kerekes, the head of Macronóm Institute, Péter Szabó, an expert at KOTRA Budapest (Korean Embassy Trade Office) and Iván Neszmélyi György, a professor at the Budapest University of Economics and Business. The panel was moderated by Rajmund Kiss, Head of the MCC Center for Diplomacy.
The numerous cultural performances and authentic Korean dishes were followed by the last panel which included Zsófia Ottóffy, an e-commerce marketing expert, Mónika Balatoni, a dramaturge, an expert on enculturation, and faculty member of the MCC Media School, and the composer Bálint Sapszon, orchestrator of the soundtracks of the worldwide-success Squid Game series and the hit film Parasite.
The elections were won by the conservative Jun Suu Kyiol, candidate of the previously opposition People's Power Party, by a very narrow margin of less than 1 percentage point. He will form the government in May, succeeding the Democratic Party that has been governing since 2017.
