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2024 South Korean Legislative Election
Legislative elections were held in South Korea on 10 April 2024. All 300 members of the National Assembly (South Korea), National Assembly were elected, 254 from first-past-the-post South Korean Legislature Constituencies, constituencies and 46 from party-list proportional representation, proportional party lists. The two largest parties, the liberal Democratic Party (South Korea, 2015), Democratic Party and the conservative People Power Party (South Korea), People Power Party, once again set up Bloc party#South Korea, satellite parties to take advantage of the electoral system. The election served as a "mid-term evaluation" for the administration of President Yoon Suk-yeol as it approached its third year. Additionally, there was significant interest in whether the ruling party could surpass the constraints of the ruling coalition, which did not secure a majority in the previous general election, and gain the necessary momentum to govern effectively during the remainder of its t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
National Assembly (South Korea)
The National Assembly of the Republic of Korea () is the Unicameralism, unicameral national legislature of South Korea. Legislative elections in South Korea, Elections to the National Assembly are held every four years. The latest 2024 South Korean legislative election, legislative elections were 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. The current Speaker was elected 5 June 2024. The National Assembly has 300 seats, with 254 constituency seats and 46 proportional representation seats; PR seats are assigned an additional member system ''de jure'' but parallel voting ''de facto'' because the usage of decoy lists by the Democratic and People Power Parties is prevalent. The unicameral assembly consists of at least 200 members according to the Constitution of South Korea, South Korean constitution. In 1990 the assembly had 299 seats, 224 of which were directly elected from single-member di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
South Korean Legislature Constituencies
The National Assembly of South Korea currently has 300 constituencies of which 254 are geographic constituencies that elect a single member using the plurality (first past the post) voting system to represent a geographic region, the remaining 46 members are elected using a semi-mixed member proportional representation system. Elections were last held for all 300 constituencies during the 2024 South Korean legislative election. Geographic constituencies Seoul (48) Busan (18) Daegu (12) Incheon (14) Gwangju (8) Daejeon (7) Ulsan (6) Sejong City (2) Gyeonggi (60) Gangwon (8) North Chungcheong (8) South Chungcheong (11) North Jeolla (10) South Jeolla (10) North Gyeongsang (13) South Gyeongsang (16) Jeju Island (3) References {{Reflist * South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Rebuilding Korea Party
The Rebuilding Korea Party (RKP; ) is a South Korea, South Korean South Korean political party, political party founded by former Minister of Justice Cho Kuk ahead of the 2024 South Korean legislative election. The name of the party can be pronounced as 'Cho-kuk Hyuk-sin Dang' in Korean. The word 'Cho-kuk' refers to 'Motherland (Korea)', but also refers to the name of the party founder Cho Kuk. However, the Hanja, which gives Korean words their meanings, is different. Cho Kuk resigned as party leader in December 2024 following the Supreme Court of Korea, Supreme Court decision to uphold his two-year prison sentence for document falsification. The RKP is considered to be a Centre-left politics, center-left alternative to the mainstream Democratic Party (South Korea, 2015), Democratic Party. The party opposes what it refers to as a "Prosecutor, prosecutorial dictatorship" and considered President Yoon Suk Yeol, Yoon Suk-yeol's administration complicit in maintaining it. Thus, the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Lee Jong-sup
Lee Jong-sup (; 20 August 1960) is a South Korean retired army lieutenant general and former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who served Minister of National Defense, from May 2022 to October 2023. Ambassador Appointment On March 12, 2024, he was officially inaugurated as the South Korean ambassador to Australia. Lee Jong-sup said in Korean: Resignation Lee resigned himself as ambassador to Australia on March 29, 2024, and President Yoon Suk Yeol Yoon Suk Yeol (; born 18 December 1960) is a South Korean politician and former prosecutor who served as the 13th president of South Korea from 2022 until Impeachment of Yoon Suk Yeol, he was removed from office in 2025. The shortest-serving ... approved his resignation the same afternoon. References , - 1960 births Living people People from Yeongcheon Korea Military Academy alumni Tennessee State University alumni Republic of Korea Army personnel National defense ministers of South Korea F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Kim Keon-hee
Kim Keon-hee (; born Kim Myeong-sin; 2 September 1972) is a South Korean businesswoman who served as the first lady of South Korea from 2022 to 2025 as the wife of President Yoon Suk Yeol. Since 2009, she has been the chief executive officer and president of the art exhibition company Covana Contents. Born in Yangpyeong, Kim graduated from Kyonggi University in 1996. In 2012, she married Yoon Suk Yeol, the-then prosecutor in Supreme Prosecutors' Office. Since the 2022 presidential election, Kim has been the subject of several allegations of misconduct, including the falsification of academic and financial reports. Early life and education Kim was born Kim Myeong-sin () on 2 September 1972 in Yangpyeong, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. In 2008, she legally changed her name to current name. Her father died when she was in middle school. She attended Myungil Girls' High School before graduating from Kyonggi University with an arts degree. Career In 2009, Kim established Covan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Largest Remainder Method
Party-list proportional representation Apportionment methods The quota or divide-and-rank methods make up a category of apportionment rules, i.e. algorithms for allocating seats in a legislative body among multiple groups (e.g. parties or federal states). The quota methods begin by calculating an entitlement (basic number of seats) for each party, by dividing their vote totals by an electoral quota (a fixed number of votes needed to win a seat, as a unit). Then, leftover seats, if any are allocated by rounding up the apportionment for some parties. These rules are typically contrasted with the more popular highest averages methods (also called divisor methods). By far the most common quota method are the largest remainders or quota-shift methods, which assign any leftover seats to the "plurality" winners (the parties with the largest remainders, i.e. most leftover votes). When using the Hare quota, this rule is called Hamilton's method, and is the third-most common ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Proportional Representation (South Korean Constituency)
Proportional representation () is a Party-list proportional representation, proportional representation constituency of the National Assembly (South Korea), National Assembly of South Korea. The constituency consists of South Korea (nationwide). It is a party-list proportional representation, adopt a closed list system. History The nationwide proportional representation system was introduced for the first time in the 1963 South Korean legislative election, 1963 election. The system at that time was to allocate proportional representation seats according to the percentage of votes won by each party in the Single-member district, single-member constituency. However, on 19 July 2001, the Constitutional Court of Korea, Constitutional Court ruled the system unconstitutional that it is against the principle of democracy to regard support for a candidate of single-member constituency as support for the party to which the candidate belongs. Thus, the Public Election Act was revised to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
First-past-the-post Voting
First-past-the-post (FPTP)—also called choose-one, first-preference plurality (FPP), or simply plurality—is a single-winner voting rule. Voters mark one candidate as their favorite, or first-preference, and the candidate with more first-preference votes than any other candidate (a ''plurality'') is elected, even if they do not have more than half of votes (a '' majority''). FPP has been used to elect part of the British House of Commons since the Middle Ages before spreading throughout the British Empire. Throughout the 20th century, many countries that previously used FPP have abandoned it in favor of other electoral systems, including the former British colonies of Australia and New Zealand. FPP is still officially used in the majority of US states for most elections. However, the combination of partisan primaries and a two-party system in these jurisdictions means that most American elections behave effectively like two-round systems, in which the first round ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Parallel Voting
In political science, parallel voting or superposition refers to the use of two or more Electoral system, electoral systems to elect different members of a legislature. More precisely, an electoral system is a superposition if it is a mixture of at least two tiers, which do not interact with each other in any way; one part of a legislature is elected using one method, while another part is elected using a different method, with all voters participating in both. Thus, the final results can be found by calculating the results for each system separately based on the votes alone, then adding them together. A system is called fusion (not to be confused with Electoral fusion in the United States, electoral fusion) or Majority bonus system, majority bonus, another independent mixture of two system but without two tiers. Superposition (parallel voting) is also not the same as "Coexistence (electoral systems), coexistence", which when different districts in the same election use different ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Mixed-member Majoritarian Representation
Mixed-member majoritarian representation (MMM) is type of a mixed electoral system combining winner-take-all and proportional methods, where the disproportional results of the winner-take-all part are dominant over the ''proportional'' component. Mixed member majoritarian systems are therefore categorized under ''semi-proportional'' representation, and are usually contrasted with mixed-member ''proportional'' representation (MMP) which aims to provide proportional representation compensation ("top-up") seats. The most common type of MMM system is the ''supplementary member'' (SM) system (a form of parallel voting), whereby representatives are voted into a chamber using at least two different systems independently of each other. Most commonly this combines first-past-the-post (single member plurality) voting (FPTP/SMP) with party-list proportional representation (list-PR). The system has been applied in the election of national parliaments as well as local governments in va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Yonhap News Agency
Yonhap News Agency (; ) is a major news agency in South Korea. It is based in Seoul, South Korea. Yonhap provides news articles, pictures, and other information to newspapers, TV networks and other media in South Korea. History Yonhap was established on 19 December 1980, through the merger of Hapdong News Agency and Orient Press. The Hapdong News Agency itself emerged in late 1945 out of the short-lived Kukje News, which had operated for two months out of the office of the Domei, the former Japanese news agency that had functioned in Korea during the Japanese Japanese colonial era. In 1999, Yonhap took over the Naewoe News Agency. Naewoe was a South Korea government-affiliated organization, created in the mid 1970s, tasked with publishing information and analysis on North Korea from a South Korean perspective through books and journals. Naewoe was known to have close links with South Korea's intelligence agency, and according to the British academic and historian James Hoar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Yoon Suk-yeol
Yoon Suk Yeol (; born 18 December 1960) is a South Korean politician and former prosecutor who served as the 13th president of South Korea from 2022 until Impeachment of Yoon Suk Yeol, he was removed from office in 2025. The shortest-serving directly elected president of South Korea in its democratic history, Yoon previously served as the prosecutor general of South Korea from 2019 to 2021. Born in Seoul, Yoon received his bachelor's and master's degrees in law from Seoul National University. In his capacity as chief of the Seoul Central District Prosecutor's Office, he played a key role in 2016 South Korean political scandal, convicting former presidents Park Geun-hye and Lee Myung-bak for abuse of power. In 2019, President Moon Jae-in appointed Yoon as Prosecutor General of South Korea. Under Yoon's leadership, the Supreme Prosecutors' Office of the Republic of Korea, Supreme Prosecutor's Office conducted embattled investigations into Cho Kuk, an influential figure in the Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
