| The South Korean Federation of University Student Councils, or Hanchongryon, failed yesterday to elect a president for the first time in its 16-year history.
The federation cited Sunday the absence of delegate candidates who wanted to run for president.
“A university’s student representative who was supposed to run in the election gave up due to opposition from his family,” a source said. “We extended the enrollment deadline for one month and persuaded university student representatives to run for the presidency, but we could not find a candidate by the new deadline of March 15.”
The federation held an emergency meeting at Hanyang University Friday with 280 members attending, including 70 college and university representatives from some 40 universities in Korea.
Kim Hyeon-ung, student representative of Chonnam National University, was elected the interim leader of the federation.
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