National Assembly of the Republic of Korea 대한민국 국회 大韓民國國會 Daehanminguk Gukhoe | |
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22nd National Assembly | |
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Leadership | |
Woo Won-shik, Independent | |
Deputy Speaker | |
Deputy Speaker | |
Structure | |
Seats | 300 |
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Political groups | Government (108)
Opposition (192)
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Length of term | 4 years |
Salary | US$128,610 |
Elections | |
Additional-member system | |
Last election | 10 April 2024 |
Next election | April 2028 |
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Main Conference Room National Assembly Building, Seoul 37°31′55.21″N 126°54′50.66″E / 37.5320028°N 126.9140722°E | |
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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.
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