Editor's Pick: "Please Let Us Take Them Out!"... Fencer Oh Sang-uk Leaves with 'Borrowed Equipment'

As police officers in neon vests approached the entrance with evidence-gathering cameras, protesters immediately blocked their path.

[Re-election for election fraud.]

On the morning of Tuesday, June 16, sports organizations based in the stadium attempted to enter the vote-counting center at Seoul Olympic Park with the assistance of the police.

A standoff ensued for about three hours as protesters resisted.

[Police: If you obstruct us, you may be charged with obstruction of business under the Criminal Act.]

Even requests to enter alongside the protesters were to no avail.

[Official from a sports organization: Please let us take them out. Please. We are just trying to enter our own facility; why are you blocking us?]

Arguments even broke out among the protesters themselves due to differing opinions.

[Protester: Why are you deciding here? You should ask the citizens who guarded (the polling station). You two do not have the authority.]

There was talk that entry into the stadium might be possible following mediation by People Power Party lawmakers who visited the site in the afternoon.

[Jang Dong-hyeok/Representative of the People Power Party: Two people from each organization will enter sequentially to retrieve their items, and two cameras will go in with them. Our lawmakers will also enter together.]

However, a female protester blocked the door, insisting that not a single person could be allowed in.

[No! You cannot!]

The People Power Party lawmakers, who had taken turns trying to persuade them, eventually gave up and withdrew.

[Protester: (Are you okay?) .... (What were you thinking when you were blocking the door?) ....]

Once the sports organizations also retreated, the protesters tied the door handles with string and wrapped them multiple times with duct tape.

Due to the stadium blockade protest, which has now entered its 12th day, the national fencing team, which departed the country on Tuesday, June 16, for the Asian Championships, had to leave for the event using equipment borrowed from other athletes.

Reported by Dong Eun-young | Produced by Yoo Ji-won | Video by Yang Ji-hoon and Kim Young-hwan | Video Editing by Choi Hye-ran | Footage courtesy of Jwapapokgyeokgi TV
※ Please note: This article was translated by AI and may contain errors.