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A South Korean Presidential Candidate Used Overwatch As Part Of Her Campaign And It Is Awesome

We're going to have to thank Kotaku's for this one, as they picked up the following video which comes to us from South Korean Presidential Candidate Sim Sang-jung. Her campaign used the incredibly popular Blizzard MOBA Overwatch in an ad, basically saying that her skills in political office would equal some awesome kills in Overwatch, and that all of this reflects positively on her ability to run a Presidency free of corruption.

From what we were able to gather thanks to a quick Google search, Sim is running on a platform of anti-corruption, but her other political positions are often more ambitious than that. In terms of economic policy, she toes the progressive party line, including the banning of hereditary succession in Korean conglomerates known as chaebols. She also wants to give a grant to every person who turns 20 to reduce the increasing wealth inequality that currently exists in South Korea. Sim is also the only major presidential candidate to openly support LGBT rights in Korea. And she opposes the deployment of THAAD, which is a U.S. anti-ballistics missile defense system, because she wants a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula. Like any sane person would. 

And don't think she's just some crazy fringe candidate either. Sim is a major political leader for the left progressive faction in South Korean politics. She is a three-term lawmaker in the National Assembly, with her credits including being the former leader of the Democratic Labor Party, the former co-founder of the New Progressive Party, and the former co-founder and leader of the Unified Progressive Party (UPP). Sounds like she's pretty solidly progressive and more than willing to work from the ground up. Considering the previous President was ousted after a corruption scandal, well. Sim's got a decent foundation to run on.

I'm not going to go out on a limb and say that this is the best way to reach the young voters, but you do have to wonder if any of the divisive campaigns of 2016 and 2017 in the western world had taken a cue from Sim, things may have gone differently.

Her gamer-friendly political ad is below.

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