Live at PPP situation room: Conservatives monitor voting from National Assembly

Up next we touch base with the conservative camp ALSO at the National Assembly preparing for its members to gather for the vote count.

I have our correspondent Oh Soo-young standing by live.

Soo-young what's the atmosphere like there at the PPP?

We still have roughly three hours until polling stations close, so party officials will open up the situation room set up at the National Assembly library where I am now to more members of the press.

The mood within the party I would say is mixed.

There's hope which springs eternal in any election campaign, but also a sense of inevitability and anxiety.

Kim has lagged behind the Democratic Party candidate Lee Jae-myung in national polls throughout the campaign by around 10 percentage points, with some polls showing an even wider gap.

Still, there's cautious optimism that Kim did his absolute best in the campaign, and there'll be a turnaround among the so-called shy conservatives and undecided voters.

As per tradition, Kim Moon-soo himself will monitor the voting and ballot counting process from his home in Gwanak-gu District, southern Seoul.

Earlier today, he put out a statement on Facebook urging voters to prevent DP's Lee Jae-myung from coming to power, saying this election is the "final opportunity" to block a -quote -monstrous autocracy.

He called on voters to defend "liberal democracy, the rule of law, market economy, and the South Korea-U.S. alliance."

If the vote count indicates Kim may be the winner, he'll come to the situation room here at the National Assembly tonight.

Key PPP figures will be on standby at the party's election headquarters from 7:30 p.m.

All right Soo-young thank you for that coverage of the conservative camp.