Live at DP situation room: Liberals monitor voting from National Assembly

We now connect live to our Moon Hye-ryeon, who's at the National Assembly Members' Office Building covering the Democratic Party of Korea.

Hye-ryeon, how are things looking over there?

Good morning, Yoo-jin.

I'm here at the building's main conference room, which is relatively quiet given that it's still early in the day.

Party members have yet to arrive, but they're expected to gather here later this afternoon.

As you can see behind me, there are two big screens toward the front of the stage and ten smaller screens set up on the stage itself, which is how the party and its candidate Lee Jae-myung will be watching the vote count unfold once the polls close at 8 PM.

Lee will be resting at his home in Gyeyang, Incheon, as he has no official schedule for today after finishing up his final rally last night.

While nothing has been confirmed as of yet, he's expected to head over here once the voting concludes and the results begin to take shape.

Once they do roll in, they will no doubt influence the atmosphere and energy in this room.

Lee was the forerunner in national polls before the blackout for new polls six days ago, so expectations are high among party members hoping to ride that momentum to a win tonight.

You mentioned that he finished up his campaign trail last night, tell us more about that.

That's right, as campaign activity is banned on Election Day, last night was Lee's final opportunity to appeal to the public face-to-face.

For his final rally, he returned to Yeouido, where the National Assembly building that I'm currently at is located, and which is also the symbolic heart of the December 3rd martial law protests.

"Tomorrow's vote will decide: end the insurrection or continue it, restore livelihoods or destroy them, grow the economy or wreck it."

After the rally, Lee livestreamed on YouTube to make a final appeal.

Sitting alone in front of the camera, he told viewers he was still "three votes short" and urged them to "help carry him across the finish line."

Over the past 22 days, Lee's campaign traveled over five thousand kilometers, taking him to 66 rallies with 236-thousand people on the trail.

His last day of campaigning took him across key battlegrounds in the Seoul metropolitan area — from Gangbuk to Gangseo, and finally to Seongnam, where he first entered politics.

Lee pledged to order an immediate review of the economic situation should he take office, placing urgent focus on recovering livelihoods.

With all eyes now on how tonight's results will unfold, that's all I have for now.

I'll be back with more updates in a later newscast.

Back to you, Yoo-jin.

Thank you, Hye-ryeon, keep a close eye on the situation over there for us throughout the day.