National Assembly
Legislature of South Korea
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2024 | 22nd National Assembly elected, with Woo Won-shik serving as Speaker from 2024 to 2026 |
June 5 2024 | The current Speaker of the National Assembly was elected. |
May 30 2024 | The current National Assembly held its first meeting and began its four-year term. |
April 10 2024 | Legislative elections for the National Assembly were held. |
2020 | The 21st National Assembly election resulted in 300 total seats, with a significant shift in political composition, showing 180 seats for one political group. |
2020 | 21st National Assembly election held, with Park Byeong-seug becoming Speaker from 2020-2022 |
2020 | 17 proportional representation seats temporarily assigned under the previous parallel voting system during the South Korean legislative election. |
2020 | Voting age lowered from 19 to 18 years old, expanding the electorate by over half a million voters. |
April 15 2020 | The 21st general election of the National Assembly was conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic, which saw the highest voter turnout in decades. |
2019 | Electoral reform implemented, replacing the parallel voting system with a variation of the additional member system for proportional representation seats in the National Assembly. |
2016 | 20th National Assembly election occurs, with Chung Sye-kyun serving as Speaker from 2016-2018 |
2012 | 19th National Assembly election takes place, with Kang Chang-hee becoming Speaker from 2012-2014 |
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