By Na Jeong-ju
Staff reporter
Election campaigns are physically challenging for all candidates as they have to press on with weeks-long campaigns, shaking hands with voters and delivering speeches.
This also meant sleepless nights for Lee Jae-oh, who ran in the Eunpyeong B district in northern Seoul in the by-elections as a candidate of the ruling Grand National Party.
“He’s lost more than five kilograms,” an aide to Lee said. “He is completely exhausted now as he couldn’t sleep for more than three hours a day during the period.”
The first thing the 65-year-old said after voting Wednesday morning at a station set up in the district’s community center was that,