Kim Eunsoo (2022150101)

Professor Chi

Political Process

2024/04/13

Report on the National Assembly Election

In South Korea, the president and the National Assembly have a complementary

relationship. The National Assembly discusses the affairs of the country, and the president governs

the affairs of the country. The National Assembly greatly influences the president's power.

Therefore, the National Assembly election is as important to Korean politics as the presidential

election. The Korean National Assembly elects 300 lawmakers every four years through democratic

elections. The history of the Korean National Assembly began on May 10, 1948, with the first

parliamentary election.

South Korea is implementing a new mixed-member proportional representation (PR) system

introduced by the revision of the Public Official Election Act in 2019 as the National Assembly

election system. It is not the parallel proportional representation system that was previously

implemented, but the mixed proportional representation system that is linked and linked. Of the 300

seats in the National Assembly, 254 are filled with regional districts, and the remaining 46 are filled

with proportional representatives. Under this system, two votes are exercised for each person when

people vote. The two votes are representatively voted for candidates for district seat races

representing the region, and proportional representatives (party) for national constituencies.

On April 10, 2024, the 22nd National Assembly election was held in South Korea. As a result of the

vote count, the turnout for the election reached 67.0%, and the number of voters reached

44,245,552. This is the highest record in 32 years since the 14th general election in 1992. The
region with the highest turnout by region is Sejong, and the region with the lowest turnout is Jeju.

(Naver, 2024)

As a result, the number of elected members of the National Assembly by district race is

representatively 161 from the Democratic Party, 90 from the People Power Party, 1 from New

Future, 1 from the New Reform Party, and 1 from the Progressive Party. In the vote to select

proportional representatives, the People Future Party owns 18, the Democratic Alliance of Korea

owns 14, the Rebuilding Korea Party owns 12, and the New Reform Party owns 2 seats as a final

result with the rate of representatively People Future Party 36.67%, Democratic Alliance of Korea

26.69%, the Rebuilding Korea Party 24.25%, the New Reform Party 3.61%, the Green-Justice

Party 2.14%, and the New Future Party 1.7% turnout rate.

The election ballot used for the 22nd election was the longest ever (51.7 centimeters)

(Gnhong, 2024). 38 political parties cast 253 candidates for proportional representation. This is also

a record. Each of the 20 parties that nominated candidates for their constituencies is the Democratic

Party of Korea, the People Power Party, the Green-Justice Party, the New Future Party, the New

Reform Party, the Liberty Unification Party, the Progressive Party, the Party for the Abolition of

Special Privileges, the Christian Party, Climate People’s Life Party, Towards Tomorrow, Towards

the Future, the Labor Party, the Korean People’s Party, the People’s Democracy Party, the New

Progressive Alliance, the Pine Tree Party, Our Republican Party, the Liberty Democratic Party, the

Korean National party, Korea’s Farmer and Fisherman’s Party. The 38 parties nominated for

proportional representation are the Democratic Alliance of Korea, the People Future Party, the

Green-Justice Party, the New Future Party, the New Reform Party, the Liberty Unification Party, the

Rebuilding Korea Party, All Citizen’s Participatory Party, Every House Public Election Grand Party,

the Ganavan Fair Party Korea, the Party for the Abolition of Special Privileges, the Republican

Party of South Korea, the National Revolutionary Party, People’s Grand United Party, Financial

Reform Party, the Christian Party, Climate Democracy Party, Towards Tomorrow, Towards the
Future, the Labor Party, the Elder’s Welfare Party, Publican Democratic Party, Korean People’s

Party, Republic of Korea Party, Korea Bisness Party, Our Future, Saenuri Party, the Pine Tree Party,

New Korean Peninsula Party, Women’s Party, Our Republican Party, Liberty Democratic Party, K-

Political Innovation Union Party, United Korean People’s Party, Korea’s Farmer and Fisherman’s

Party, Hannara Party, Korean Wave Alliance Party, Hongik Party, and Hisitag National Policy Party.

(Wikipedia, 2024)
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Wikipedia Contributors. “List of Political Parties in South Korea.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia

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