The border you can't see: How Honam and Yeongnam came to shape Korean politics

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• ·Honam and Yeongnam are at the center of Korea’s regional political divide.
• ·Here’s how history, economic development and elections turned Jeolla and Gyeongsang into rival strongholds.
• ·On Monday, President Lee Jae Myung said that “Honam lags far behind Yeongnam” during his presser.
• ·Weeks earlier, Democratic Party chief Jung Chung-rae likened Honam to a parent of the liberal party and said that the party would strive to repay the region's loyalty through what he called "filial politics.” The Honam and Yeongnam regions are not technically real or administrative districts.
• ·Instead, they are divided by an abstract border.