Sports officials in Seoul were again denied access to the Olympic Park Handball Gymnasium (a venue in southern Seoul's Songpa Ward used as a ballot-counting centre for South Korea's June 3 local elections) on Tuesday, after a single protester stood at the gate and refused to let them enter despite an agreement between demonstrators and authorities. The standoff, now in its twelfth day, began when protesters occupied the site to prevent ballot boxes from being removed, citing unprecedented ballot shortages at 26 polling stations nationwide and demanding that the elections be rerun. South Korea's Sports Minister Chae Hwi-young condemned the continued blockade on social media, calling it illegal and warning that the government would pursue all available legal measures if protesters did not stand down.