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[National Future Strategy Insight] Could More Legislative Activities be the Future of Our National Assembly, No. 4

Date : 2020-10-15 Writer : Park Sang-hoon

Although the legislative activities of the National Assembly have been operative since democratization in 1987, the Head of NAFI Governance Group Park Sang-hoon diagnosed that a review of the following problems is required: excessive competition over the number of introduced bills, inadequate review of and deliberation on bills, and the hasty passing of bills.

In fact, as of the 20th National Assembly (2016-2020), the Korean National Assembly proposed/introduced more legislations than major advanced countries including France (20 times more), Japan and Germany (60 times more), and the UK (80 times more). The number of the legislations corresponds to the amount that would take five years for a lawmaker to fully read and review, provided he can read and review bills initiated by fellow lawmakers for four hours a day over 300 days a year, with 15 minutes devoted to each bill.

“'More important legislations' rather than 'more numerous legislations' is the future that the National Assembly needs to move forward to. If we select and propose valuable bills through a preliminary review, and enact them after extensive deliberation, discussion, and adjustment, this will lead to increased public trust in the National Assembly,” emphasized Dr. Park.

※ "National Future Strategy Insight" is a brief-type in-depth research report issued every other week to present national future strategies for Korea based on the analysis of major future issues by the research fellows of National Assembly Futures Institute.

Inquiries: NAFI Governance Group Head Park Sang-hoon (parksh0305@nafi.re.kr)