Ruling Party Holds Lawmaker Workshop... "Swift Passage of Livelihood Bills"

Held in Yongsan-gu, Seoul on July 3

Review of Legislative Strategy for the Second Half of the Regular Session

Attendance by Government Officials, Including Sung Sook Han and Hoon Sik Kang

On the afternoon of July 3, the Democratic Party of Korea will share its operational direction and management plan for the regular session of the 22nd National Assembly's second half at a parliamentary workshop held at a hotel in Yongsan-gu, Seoul. The event will also be attended by government and presidential office officials, including Prime Minister Sung Sook Han and Presidential Chief of Staff Hoon Sik Kang.

During the first session of the workshop, Chief of Staff Kang will spend about an hour explaining the “second year policy direction and governance plan of the Lee Jaemyung administration.” Afterwards, the party's floor leadership plans to announce the operational stance for the latter half of the Assembly and key legislative agendas for the administration’s second year in power.

Byungdo Han, Acting Party Leader and Floor Leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, is speaking at the Supreme Council meeting held at the National Assembly on July 3, 2026. Photo by Hyunmin Kim

Byungdo Han, Acting Party Leader and Floor Leader of the Democratic Party, stated at the Supreme Council meeting on this day, “Today's workshop will serve as a venue to reaffirm the ruling party's responsibilities and pledge the thorough completion of livelihood-related legislation,” adding, “We will revise the fast-track procedure to ensure that essential livelihood bills are processed swiftly without getting entangled in unnecessary political strife, and we will also put a stop to sham filibusters.” He further remarked, “We plan to complete all major legislative tasks of the Lee Jaemyung administration by the end of the year.”

Acting Leader Han also said, “Regarding the amendment of the Criminal Procedure Act, the floor, policy committee, and Legislation and Judiciary Committee will join forces to ensure the content is robust and the process is conducted expeditiously.”

The People Power Party declared a full boycott of the National Assembly schedule after the ruling party completed the first round of the assembly's organization by unilaterally electing chairs for 11 standing committees, including the Legislation and Judiciary Committee. Jeong Jeom Sik, Floor Leader of the People Power Party, stated at a floor countermeasures meeting on this day, “If supplementary investigative powers are abolished, investigative agencies will repeatedly pass cases among themselves, and the damage will ultimately fall on the public.”

Earlier, the Legislation and Judiciary Committee announced at a plenary session its plan to bring up next week the amendment to the Criminal Procedure Act, which includes abolishing the prosecution's supplementary investigative powers. At the People Power Party’s general meeting on July 2, some discussed a possible concession of the committee chairmanship if the Democratic Party promised not to process the “special prosecutor bill for cancellation of indictments,” but it was reported that most deemed this unrealistic. Kim Seung Soo, Senior Deputy Floor Leader for Assembly Operations at the People Power Party, said, “Unless the Democratic Party changes its stance, we have no intention of cooperating in the management of standing committees.”

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