South Korea's ruling Democratic Party, or DPK, won 12 of 16 metropolitan mayor and governor seats in the June 3 local elections, and the conservative People Power Party, or PPP, won the other four, a sharp drop from its earlier 12 seats, Yonhap News Agency reported on June 4. Importantly, the PPP retained the key mayoral seat in Seoul, but a DPK candidate won the mayoral race in the conservative stronghold of Busan.