Seoul subway cell phones: great things happen politically when everyone's connected.

Note: this is part of an on-going series of posts based on my research of the the Korean Citizen journalism site OhmyNews. Previous posts can be found here and here.

December 19, 2002, was Election Day in Korea. It was the culmination of this evolution, when the citizen media, grassroots politics, and ordinary citizens came together to shift the fate of an election. The night before, presidential candidate Roh Mo-Hyun was dealt a terrible blow. Chung Mong-Joon, a critical supporter of Roh withdrew his support for the