Some lauded the president in their pursuit to heighten party achievements, even comparing her to Jesus.

"Our hand-picked president Park is carrying out the laborious tasks which the former presidents have cowardly shirked away from, just as bloodied Jesus had carried the cross up the hill,” said Jeong Jong-sub, a Saenuri candidate running for a seat in Daegu.

Main opposition The Minjoo Party of Korea’s temporary chief Kim Chong-in urged the people to “Bring justice to how the incumbent regime has failed Korea’s economy,” saying that the eight years Saenuri held power was a “time lost.”

Sohn Hak-gyu, former chairman of the Minjoo Party, called the current South Korean politics “a frog in a well,” and that the people of South Korea are “standing on the edge of a cliff.”

Another independent candidate, Ryu Hwa-sun, who is running in Paju, Gyeonggi Province said he would “Bring justice to rotten politics,” by “gouging out Paju’s areas festered with backward customs.”

He was one of the many politicians who professed he will work hard, to the point to which he will “be spitting blood” from his “vehement and zealous efforts.”

By Lim Jeong-yeo (kaylalim@heraldcorp.com)