Public elections

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Elections that select officials to hold major elected public offices, such as president, members of parliament, heads of local governments, and local council members. The Public Official Election Act governs their procedures and processes…. These are presidential elections, National Assembly elections, elections for heads of local governments, and elections for local council members…. Elections for superintendents of education are also held alongside local elections, but they are not elections prescribed by the Public Official Election Act; rather, the Local Education Autonomy Act provides for applying the Public Official Election Act to them mutatis mutandis. Elections for heads of various cooperatives, representatives of apartment complexes, or executives of community credit cooperatives, among others, are called entrusted elections, to which the Public Official Election Act does not apply. —p15, Korean Political History through Elections