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The presidential regulatory reform committee will focus on cutting red tape, said its chair, while a political analyst broke down the impending landscape domestically.
Incumbents performed well in key battleground districts during Wednesday's general election, though some political heavyweights barely scraped by after nail-biting vote counts.
Former Justice Minister Cho Kuk's liberal Rebuilding Korea Party emerged as a third force in Wednesday's election by securing 12 of the 46 proportional representative seats.
The candidate of the People Power Party (PPP), Shin Dong-wook, secured victory over Rep. Hong Ihk-pyo of the Democratic Party (DP) for Seoul's Seocho-B District.
The PPP's Shin Dong-wook, a former news anchor for TV Chosun, is projected to claim the seat in the historical conservative stronghold.
Nearly 140,000 personnel were deployed to polling sites nationwide on Wednesday as voting for the 22nd National Assembly began in the morning.
A string of political figures showed up to the polls on Wednesday morning as voting for the 22nd National Assembly commenced.
Several candidates nominated by smaller liberal parties to run in constituencies where the Democratic Party (DP) has not named its own candidates have criminal records, including violations of the National Security Law.
Neighborhood hospitals have been closing earlier than usual with doctors on partial strike and 20,000 nursing assistants on leave to protest nursing legislation pushed through the National Assembly led by the Democratic Party (DP).
Korea JoongAng Daily Sitemap