SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A drunken man was arrested in the National Assembly compound in the wee hours Tuesday after he trespassed into the compound and then smashed a car window and brandished a kitchen knife toward a policeman. The man in his 50s, whose identity was withheld, climbed over the wall into [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The opposition-led National Assembly on Tuesday passed a special bill on the launch of a committee to reopen an investigation into a deadly 2022 crowd crush in Seoul’s Itaewon district. The bill, approved at a plenary meeting, aims to provide support to the victims and their bereaved family members [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The main opposition Democratic Party (DP) is expected to attempt to pass a pro-labor bill and three other contentious measures through the National Assembly starting Thursday, as the ruling People Power Party (PPP) has vowed to use a filibuster to block the attempt. The PPP has readied a roster [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Legislative efforts to end dog meat consumption in South Korea are picking up speed amid rare political unity following the presidential office’s outspoken support for ending the centuries-old practice. Calls to end the practice are not new in South Korea, where butchering or eating dog meat is neither explicitly [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Assembly on Tuesday adopted a resolution urging swift support measures for quake-hit Turkey and Syria. The resolution passed the assembly’s plenary session with an endorsement of 228 of 229 seated lawmakers. One was an abstention vote. The resolution centers on supporting rescue and restoration operations in the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Assembly on Saturday passed the 638.7 trillion won (US$497 billion) of government budget for 2023 as well as bills to cut corporate tax rate and delay financial investment income tax amid signs of economic slowdown. The ruling People Power Party (PPP) and the main opposition Democratic Party [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Assembly Secretariat announced Wednesday the deployal of an artificial intelligence (AI) robot that provides guide tours and answers questions. The self-driven robot, dubbed “QI,” offers commentary about the National Assembly in four languages — Korean, English, Chinese and Japanese. A six-week trial ended successfully, and the robot [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Assembly has decided to refer the head of Google Korea to prosecutors for perjury during the parliamentary audit. Kim Kyung-hoon, the country director for Google’s local unit, appeared as a witness at the parliamentary audit of the Korea Communications Commission led by the Science, ICT, Future Planning, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on Tuesday called for South Korea to become a “leader” in global health cooperation to help end infectious diseases like COVID-19. “Korea is poised to be a leader in this work,” Gates said in his address to the parliamentary budget committee at the National Assembly, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Assembly passed the 2022 government budget Friday, a record high amount of 607.7 trillion won (US$516.3 billion) to cope with the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic and other expenses. The bill’s passage came a day after the legal deadline, as last-minute negotiations between the ruling Democratic [...]