Parties seek new strategies for 2020 general election after electoral revisions
(WorldNews South Korea)

Lawmakers of the main opposition Liberty Korea Party (LKP) walk out of the National Assembly`s plenary session en mass after an electoral reform bill to expand the Assembly seats for proportional representation was passed, Dec. 27. Yonhap By Jung Da-min After numerous rounds of negotiations and debates over the past years, the National Assembly has adopted a new electoral system that will be applied in the upcoming general elections in April. The National Assembly passed an electoral reform bill Dec. 27 that has been pushed ahead by the ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) and four other minor parties since they placed it on a legislative fast track in late April. The main opposition...