Guided Han River tours Free tours making stops at historic sites near and around the Han River will run through November. The tours will start at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. daily, with each tour lasting about two hours. Reservations need to be made five days in advance for individuals and a month in advance for groups, at visit-hangang.seoul.kr. Text messages will be sent when reservations are made or if a tour is canceled.
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South Korean politics has long been marked by a sharp east-west divide in its southern regions. In the southeast, Daegu, Busan, Ulsan and the Gyeongsang Provinces have been a conservative stronghold for decades, while the country’s southwest, including Gwangju and the Jeolla Provinces, has been a bastion for the left wing. In the 2020 legislative election, the center-left won in 27 out of 28 seats in Korea'.
The mayor of Gwangju is in a dilemma over President Yoon Suk Yeol’s town hall meeting in the city, as the liberal mayor’s previous requests for Yoon to hold the event in Gwangju are being used by the presidential office as a rationale to undermine the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea’s (DPK) criticisms of the president.