Special counsel searches Seoul handball arena in ballot shortage probe

What happened: A special counsel team searched the Olympic Park Handball Gymnasium in Seoul, a vote counting center during the June 3 local elections, to secure election records and surveillance footage in a probe into ballot shortages. Key numbers: 2.47 million ballot papers from Songpa Ward are stored at the site. Police deployed 20 mobile units. Why it matters: The search is the team's first since its investigation launched last month, and it precedes an inspection of stored ballots as protesters block their removal and call for accountability and a rerun.

A special counsel team searched the Olympic Park Handball Gymnasium in Seoul, a vote counting center during the June 3 local elections, to secure election records and surveillance footage in a probe into ballot shortages.

The search is the team's first since its investigation launched last month, and it precedes an inspection of stored ballots as protesters block their removal and call for accountability and a rerun.