South Korea is in a holding pattern, as the country waits for the Constitutional Court to rule on the legality of President Park Geun-hye’s impeachment. However, politicians are aware that as soon as the court issues its decision – if the impeachment motion passed by the National Assembly is upheld – there will be a maximum of sixty days of campaigning before the next Presidential election. This sense of urgency has brought prospective candidates out onto the campaign trail, and their assorted statements are now at the center of nationwide news coverage.

Nobody yet knows the election date