Voting at Churches Draws Protest

January 24, 2008

Author: Bae Ji-sook

Source: Religion News Service/Korea Times

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Religious groups are protesting that voting places are being unequally allocated to protestant churches, and are moving to file a petition with the Constitutional Court next month. They are appealing that the unequal allotment of the facilities is discriminatory and goes against the principle of neutrality that the country should uphold in elections.

Buddhists complained that the installment could give people the wrong idea. "It may give the impression that the country is in favor of a particular religion," said a researcher at an institute with the nation's largest Buddhist Jogye order.