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One intriguing feature in South Korean presidential elections since democratization is a rise of ‘strong’ third candidate. This phenomena were particularly noticeable in the 1992 and 1997 presidential elections. Chung Ju-young in 1992 and Rhee In-je in 1997 succeeded in winning considerable proportions of votes coming from almost nowhere, even though their shares were not large enough to win presidency on their own. The purpose is this paper is whether strong support for the ‘third’ candidates is related to a structural environment like a regional rivalry. This paper argues that as the regional rivalry creates the immobility of party choice between two main parties, there exist many disappointed supporter with their ‘traditional’ party, but could not directly shift to therival party. The third candidates were political entrepreneurs who attempted to attract such unhappy voters, and they ucceeded in wooing some of them.
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South Korean presidential elections, Chung Ju-young, Rhee In-je, immobility of party choice, Duverger’s law
