[1] The elections were the first time in Korean history that the citizens were allowed to vote for a national legislative body.

On 8 and 9 March 1948, UN delegates from Australia, Canada, India, and Syria expressed their doubts and some complete rejection of the elections on 10 May 1948 for South Korea.

[4] The UN delegates were concerned by Korea's political maturity at the time, feeling that the elections might not validly express the popular will in a country which had only been independent for four years.

[4] However, a vote in the South Korean Interim Legislature on 10 March ruled 40 to 0 in favor of holding the election.

At the proceedings, they left one hundred seats open in the Constituent National Assembly for North Koreans to vote on when they were able.