S Korea's dispirited young voters demand societal and economic change

Seoul

THIRTY years after South Korea became a democracy, voters from that period in the nation's history go to the polls on Tuesday frustrated over their prospects and demanding change as growth slows and job prospects fade.

The decades-long "Miracle on the Han" - named after the river that flows through Seoul - propelled the country from a war-ravaged ruin to Asia's fourth-largest economy and in the ranks of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.