Drive for constitutional revision may lose steam
(WorldNews South Korea)

By Kim Hyo-jin Doubts are growing over whether the National Assembly could hold a referendum on a constitutional revision in tandem with local elections slated for June next year as the Moon Jae-in government pledged. The National Assembly`s special committee to discuss a constitutional revision announced Wednesday it plans to draft a revision bill by February next year and put it up for a vote in the National Assembly by May, a timeline aimed to call a referendum in June in tandem with the local elections. But on the same day, main opposition Liberty Korea Party (LKP) chairman Hong Joon-pyo...