National Assembly of South Korea

National Assembly of the
Republic of Korea

대한민국 국회
大韓民國國會

*Daehanminguk Gukhoe*
National Assembly of the; Republic of Korea ; 대한민국 국회; 大韓民國國會; Daehanminguk Gukhoe
22nd National Assembly
Type
Type	Unicameral
Leadership
Speaker	Woo Won-shik, Democratic
Deputy Speaker	Lee Hak-young, Democratic
Deputy Speaker	Vacant
Structure
Seats	300
Political groups	Government (108) People Power (108); Opposition (192) Democratic (170); Rebuilding Korea (12); New Reform (3); Progressive (3); New Future (1); Basic Income (1); Social Democratic (1); Speaker (1);
Length of term	4 years
Salary	US$128,610
Elections
Voting system	Additional-member system
Last election	10 April 2024
Next election	2028
Meeting place
	Main Conference Room; National Assembly Building, Seoul; 37°31′55.21″N 126°54′50.66″E / 37.5320028°N 126.9140722°E
Website
	www.assembly.go.kr

The National Assembly of the Republic of Korea, often shortened to the National Assembly, is the unicameral national legislature of South Korea.^[1] Elections to the National Assembly are held every four years. The latest legislative elections was held on 10 April 2024. The current National Assembly held its first meeting, and also began its current four year term, on 30 May 2024.^[2]^[3] The next Speaker was elected 5 June 2024.^[4]^[5] The National Assembly has 300 seats, with 253 constituency seats and 47 proportional representation seats; 30 of the PR seats are assigned an additional member system, while 17 PR seats use the parallel voting method.

The unicameral assembly consists of at least 200 members according to the South Korean constitution. In 1990 the assembly had 299 seats, 224 of which were directly elected from single-member districts in the general elections of April 1988. Under applicable laws, the remaining seventy-five representatives were elected from party lists. By law, candidates for election to the assembly must be at least thirty years of age. As part of a political compromise in 1987, an earlier requirement that candidates have at least five years' continuous residency in the country was dropped to allow Kim Dae-jung, who had spent several years in exile in Japan and the United States during the 1980s, to return to political life. The National Assembly's term is four years. In a change from the more authoritarian Fourth Republic and Fifth Republic (1972–81 and 1981–87, respectively), under the Sixth Republic, the assembly cannot be dissolved by the president.

Building

The main building in Yeouido, Seoul, is a stone structure with seven stories above ground and one story below ground. The building has 24 columns, which means the legislature's promise to listen to people 24/7 throughout the year.^[6]

Structure and appointment

Speaker

The constitution stipulates that the assembly is presided over by a Speaker and two Deputy Speakers,^[7] who are responsible for expediting the legislative process. The Speaker and Deputy Speakers are elected in a secret ballot by the members of the Assembly, and their term in office is restricted to two years.^[8] The Speaker is independent of party affiliation, and the Speaker and Deputy Speakers may not simultaneously be government ministers.^[8]

Negotiation groups

Parties that hold at least 20 seats in the assembly form floor negotiation groups (Korean: 교섭단체, Hanja: 交涉團體, RR: gyoseop danche), which are entitled to a variety of rights that are denied to smaller parties. These include a greater amount of state funding and participation in the leaders' summits that determine the assembly's legislative agenda.^[9]

In order to meet the quorum, the United Liberal Democrats, who then held 17 seats, arranged to "rent" three legislators from the Millennium Democratic Party. The legislators returned to the MDP after the collapse of the ULD-MDP coalition in September 2001.^[10]

Legislative process

For a legislator to introduce a bill, they must submit the proposal to the Speaker, accompanied by the signatures of at least ten other assembly members. A committee must then review the bill to verify that it employs precise and orderly language. Following this, the Assembly may either approve or reject the bill.^[11]

Committees

There are 17 standing committees which examine bills and petitions falling under their respective jurisdictions, and perform other duties as prescribed by relevant laws.^[12]

House Steering Committee
Legislation and Judiciary Committee
National Policy Committee
Strategy and Finance Committee
Education Committee
Science, ICT, Broadcasting and Communications Committee
Foreign Affairs and Unification Committee
National Defense Committee
Public Administration and Security Committee
Culture, Sports and Tourism Committee
Agriculture, Food, Rural Affairs, Oceans and Fisheries Committee
Trade, Industry, Energy, SMEs and Startups Committee
Health and Welfare Committee
Environment and Labor Committee
Land Infrastructure and Transport Committee
Intelligence Committee
Gender Equality and Family Committee

Election

The National Assembly has 300 seats, with 254 constituency seats under FPTP and 46 proportional representation seats. With electoral reform taken in 2019, the PR seats apportionment method was replaced by a variation of additional member system from the previous parallel voting system. However, 17 seats were temporarily assigned under parallel voting in the 2020 South Korean legislative election.^[13]

Per Article 189 of Public Official Election Act,^[14]^[15] the PR seats are awarded to parties that have either obtained at least 3% of the total valid votes in the legislative election or at least five constituency seats. The number of seats allocated to each eligible party is decided by the formula:

n_{\text{initial}}=\left\lfloor {\frac {(n_{\text{Assembly}}-n_{\text{ineligibles}})\times {\text{PR votes ratio}}-n_{\text{obtained constituencies}}+1}{2}}\right\rfloor

where

$n Assembly$ = total number of seats in the National Assembly.
$n ineligibles$ = number of seats obtained by ineligible parties and independents.
$n obtained constituencies$ = number of constituency seats obtained by the party.
$n ams$ = total number of seats allocated for additional member system.

If the integer is less than 1, then $n initial$ is set to 0 and the party does not get any seats. Then the sum of initially allocated seats is compared to the total seats for the additional member system and recalculated.

n_{\text{remainder}}=\left(n_{\text{ams}}-\sum n_{\text{initial}}\right)\times {\text{PR votes ratio}}

n_{\text{final}}={\begin{cases}n_{\text{initial}}+n_{\text{remainder}},&{\text{if }}\sum n_{\text{initial}}<n_{\text{ams}}\\n_{\text{ams}}\times {\dfrac {n_{\text{initial}}}{\sum n_{\text{initial}}}},&{\text{if }}\sum n_{\text{initial}}>n_{\text{ams}}\end{cases}}

Final seats are assigned through the largest remainder method, and if the remainder is equal, the winner is determined by lottery among the relevant political parties.

The voting age was also lowered from 19 to 18 years old, expanding the electorate by over half a million voters.^[16]

Legislative violence

From 2004 to 2009, the assembly gained notoriety as a frequent site for legislative violence.^[17] The Assembly first came to the world's attention during a violent dispute on impeachment proceedings for then President Roh Moo-hyun,^[18]^[19] when open physical combat took place in the assembly. Since then, it has been interrupted by periodic conflagrations, piquing the world's curiosity once again in 2009 when members battled each other with sledgehammers and fire extinguishers. The National Assembly since then has taken preventive measures to prevent any more legislative violence.^[20]^[21]^[22]

Historical composition

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Progressive - Liberal - Independent politician - Conservative

Election

Total
seats

Composition

1st
(1948)

200

29

85

1

2

6

12

55

2nd
(1950)

210

2

24

126

1

3

10

14

24

3rd
(1954)

203

15

67

1

3

114

4th
(1958)

233

79

26

1

127

5th
(1960)

233

4

1

175

49

1

2

6th
(1963)

175

40

14

2

9

110

7th
(1967)

175

1

45

129

8th
(1971)

204

1

89

1

113

9th
(1973)

219

2

52

19

146

10th
(1978)

231

3

61

22

145

11th
(1981)

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