S. Korea's youth say government failing them

SEOUL — Outnumbered by older voters, underrepresented in parliament, ignored on the campaign trail: South Korea's young say the political system is failing them, and some are fighting back before Wednesday's election.

The poll to choose the National Assembly's 300 lawmakers will be the first vote in South Korean history, where voters aged 60 and older will outnumber those in both their 20s and 30s, official data showed.

This is partly demographics. South Korea has the world's lowest birthrate and is a rapidly aging society, with the number of marriages in free fall for decades and single-person households now the norm.