SEOUL: This week’s general election in South Korea is expected to feature a new breed of “angry young voter,” — millennials frustrated with record-high unemployment and widening inequality in career prospects.

The April 13 ballot for the 300-seat national assembly has been touted as a referendum on the economic policies of the ruling conservative Saenuri Party, and President Park Geun-Hye who has less than two years left of her single five-year term.

Polls suggest the Saenuri, popular with older voters, will retain the simple parliamentary majority it won in 2012, especially with rifts between opposition parties threatening to split the liberal vote.

But surveys also point to a possible new variable made up of members of what has become known as the “three-no generation” — no job, no home and no marriage prospects.

Growth in Asia’s fourth-largest economy has stuttered in recent years, in line with a global slowdown and increasing competition in key export markets.

As cash-strapped businesses have scaled down or stopped hiring altogether, the jobless rate for those under 30 has reached a record high of 12.5 percent — compared to a national average of 4.9 percent. “There is so much anger in us right now,” said Kim Min-Jun, a 24-year-old college senior in Seoul. Kim said most of his friends at the elite Sogang University had become “automatically jobless” upon graduation.