Seoul free lunch referendum, 2011

The Seoul Free Lunch Referendum was a referendum of allowing the free school meal in the schools around the Seoul Metropolitan Area held on 24 August 2011. The former mayor of Seoul, Oh Se-hoon, proposed to provide a limited free meal service to the 30% of the impoverished children in Seoul, but the Democratic Party proposed to make the free meal service to every kid in Seoul starting from younger elementary school children and gradually to middle school children.[1] This has become the cause of Oh Se-hoon's action to make the final decision of the policy through a referendum. The referendum was later rejected due to the low voter turnout of 25.7%, significantly lower than the required turnout of 33.3%.[2] The low voting rate contributed Oh Se-hoon's resignation from the mayoralty of Seoul.

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  1. Jung (정), Gi-cheol (기철) (2010-10-22). ‘친환경 무상급식’ 해결기미 가물가물. Asia Today (in Korean). Retrieved 2011-09-24.
  2. Kim (김), Pul-ip (풀잎) (2011-08-24). 무상급식 주민투표 결과…투표율 25.7%에 무산 ‘오세훈 거취 주목’. 아츠뉴스 사회 (in Korean). Retrieved 2011-09-24.
  3. Jang (장), Yeon-ju (연주) (2011-01-11). 695억 막으려고 120억 써버린다?... 오세훈의 ‘무리수’. 헤럴드경제 (in Korean).
  4. Hwang (황), Bang-yeol (방열) (2011-08-25). '식물시장' 오세훈 승리? 정신 못차린 청와대. OhMyNews (in Korean). Retrieved 2011-09-24.
  5. Cho (조), Hyeon-cheol (현철) (2011-08-24). 한나라·청와대 "사실상 승리" 주장. Kyunghyang Sinmun (in Korean). Retrieved 2011-09-24.

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