Counting votes by hand

National Election Commission staff count votes by hand at a ballot counting station in Seoul's Yeongdeungpo-gu, Wednesday, after the April 15 general election to form the 21st National Assembly ended earlier in the evening. The counting is expected to be completed this morning. Machines for electronic counting could not process the longest-ever ballot paper for the proportional representation vote, in which 35 parties participated. Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul