Video: Exit polls from South Korea’s presidential election indicate that liberal candidate Moon Jae-in will be the country’s next leader. Although the latest election was done in the wake of a massive corruption scandal, at least one South Korean news service decided to have a bit of fun with the results.
Image: SBS
Election coverage from broadcaster SBS has been making the rounds on the internet this morning, thanks to the fact that it dressed up Moon, as well as rival Hong Joon-Pyo and other candidates, as if they were competing for Westeros’ Iron Throne rather than the presidency. If you ever wanted to see an ageing politician photoshopped onto the back of Daenerys’ dragon, set to the Game of Thrones theme, well do we have the videos for you:
역시 한국에서 제일 재밌는 방송은 선거방송임 pic.twitter.com/3PLG53EOD5
— SRNT (@SRNT00) May 9, 2017
2017 대선게임 권좌를 찾아서 pic.twitter.com/0Ch4dQ4N7f
— ExE (@exel_ler) May 9, 2017
냅두려다가 다들 궁금해하시길래 이건 나머지부분 pic.twitter.com/eaV6v84vtX
— SRNT (@SRNT00) May 9, 2017
Certainly weird, but far from the first time this latest election has been rendered through popular culture. Overwatch character D.Va — a South Korean pro gamer turned mecha pilot named Hana Song in the Blizzard shooter’s futuristic setting — has been turned into a feminist icon in the country in the wake of the corruption scandal surrounding ousted president Park Geun-Hye. The game itself even became part of one candidate’s political campaign.
Hopefully Mr Moon’s presidency in South Korea will be less fraught than the life of someone on Westeros’ throne usually is.