We urge the DP to demonstrate the spirit of compromise, not arrogance, before it’s too late.
With the National Assembly speaker preparing to leave the country for a trip to the United States without putting to a vote under his jurisdiction several controversial bills, Park Jie-won called him “a son of bitch.”
f they really want to serve the people and country, they must pass the pending bills before they are killed.
Electricity meters are affixed to a wall in Mapo District, western Seoul, on Wednesday.
A number of bills aimed at improving people’s livelihood were not passed in the regular session of the National Assembly due to fierce political battles between the governing People Power Party and the majority Democratic Party.
Rival parties must demonstrate bipartisanship to save the economy through regulatory reform.
Despite the urgency of the bills to be passed, most of them are still pending, even two weeks after the opening of the plenary session of the 21st National Assembly on Sept. 1.
Prices are attached on a counter of a public bathhouse in downtown Seoul on Monday. The consumer price index for bathhouses rose 14.1 percent on year in May to log the highest increase in 14 years and five months, according to Statistics Korea...
The fiasco underscores the need to establish an independent rate-setting commission to determine power rates without political influence as done in advanced countries.
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