(2) Any person may freely canvass for an election. However, this shall not apply where such canvassing is prohibited or restricted by this Act or other statutes. Article 58-2 (Soliciting to Participate in Voting) Any person may solicit others to participate in voting: Provided, That the same shall not apply to any of the following acts: 1. Making a house-to-house visit; 2. Soliciting others to participate in voting within a distance of 100 meters from an early voting polling station or polling station; 3. Including any content that supports, recommends or opposes a specific political party or candidate (including a person who intends to become a candidate; hereinafter the same shall apply in this Article); 4. Using facilities like placard, printed materials, a loudspeaker or audio or video recorder (including video or audio equipment), shoulder belts, labels, or other marks (limited to where the name of a political party or the name or photograph of a candidate is presented or any content that can be inferred about the name of a political party or candidate is presented.). Article 59 (Period for Election Campaign) An election campaign may be allowed during the period from the commencing date of election period to the day before the election day: Provided, That the same shall not apply to any of the following cases: <Amended on Mar. 12, 2004; Aug. 4, 2005; Jul. 28, 2011; Feb. 29, 2012; Feb. 8, 2017; Dec. 29, 2020> 1. Where any preliminary candidate, etc. wages the election campaign pursuant to Article 60-3 (1) and (2); 2. Where a person works on an election campaign by sending text messages. In such cases, the persons who are permitted to send such messages by means of automatic broadcast communications (referring to means by which text messages are sent by automatically selecting recipients using a program even where the number of persons intended to receive messages at the same time exceeds 20 or the number of such persons is not more than 20; hereinafter the same shall apply) shall be limited to candidates and preliminary candidates, but the number of times such messages may be sent shall not exceed eight times (including the number of times a candidate sent such messages when he or she was a preliminary candidate), and only one telephone number reported in accordance with the National Election Commission Regulations shall be used; 3. Where a person works on an election campaign by posting a writing or video clip on an internet website or its bulletin board or chatting room or sending an e-mail (referring to a communication system with which computer users exchange information in the form of text, voice, images, or video clips through a network; hereinafter the same shall apply). In such cases, persons who are permitted to send e-mails by entrusting the dispatch of e-mails to an agency shall be limited to candidates and preliminary candidates.