Rep. Yoo Jee-young, a leader of the National Assembly Gender Equality and Family Committee, has proposed a revision bill to boost former career women’s economic activities.   The government has offered support to help former career women find jobs again as Korea is grappling with a de…

Korean National Assembly Speaker Jung Ui-hwa speaks at the MIKTA Speakers’ Consultation 2015 that gets under way in Seoul.   Parliamentary leaders of four middle powers -- so-called MIKTA -- participate in the MIKTA Speakers' Consulttion 2015 that opened for a five-day run in Seou…

Rep. Kim Eul-dong of the ruling Saenuri PartyRep. Kim Eul-dong of the ruling Saenuri Party called for legislative action on the protection of the rights for the vendors, especially, SMEs by amending the laws dealing with the conflicts involving large firms and vendors and the negotiations on the pri…

Rep. Yoo Sungkull of the ruling Saenuri PartyRep. Yoo Sungkull of the ruling Saenuri Party said only option we have in securing supplemental budget now is to issue national bonds. During the interpellation of the government on economic policies at the National Assembly on June 22, the legislato…

Rep. Yu Eui-dong of the ruling Saenuri PartyRep. Yu Eui-dong of the ruling Saenuri Party from Pyeongtaek-B District in Gyeonggi Province, declared that he will continue to put all he has into expanding the farm infrastructure in the Pyeongtaek area by securing enough budget for the project with the …

Rep. Kil Jeong-woo of the ruling Saenuri Party meets with his local constituents in A-District of Yangcheon-gu, Seoul, during the “Day of Communication” at his party’s district office. Rep. Kil Jeong-woo of the ruling Saenuri Party, has set the first Monday of each month as the “Day…

Chairman Rep. Lee Byung-suk chairs  a recent meeting of the Political Reform Committee of the National AssemblyRep. Lee Byung-suk of the ruling Saenuri Party has been doing all he can leading the legislative effort to exempt the agricultural businesses operated by the National Agriculture Coope…

President Park Geun-hye and Uzbek President Islam Karimov  are at a media conference following their summit at Cheong Wa Dae on May 28 in which they agreed to expand and further strengthen bilateral ties between Korea and Uzbekistan in many key areas including economic, health care even to secu…

President Park Geun-hye delivers her commemorative speech at the Construction Day anniversary event in Seoul on June 25.(Photo:Cheong Wa Dae)President Park Geun-hye, accompanied by Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Yoo Il-ho, meets with representatives of the construction industry at th…