Overseas voting for the 2022 presidential election will commence on Wednesday and run through February 28.

According to the National Election Commission(NEC), overseas voters will be able to cast their ballots at 177 diplomatic offices and 219 polling stations across 115 countries between  the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. To vote, citizens must provide a photo identification, as well as their name and birth date. 

Absentee voting will not, however, take place in Ukraine due to the escalating tensions there involving Russia.

Even if they are registered to vote overseas, traveling voters can cast their ballots in Korea on March 9 if they can produce paperwork showing that they were not overseas in the country they had registered to vote from during the absentee voting period.

The NEC also said that it will take precautions to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 at the polling sites.