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It was confirmed by an SBS interview that the National Assembly recently prepared a detailed plan to solve the problem you saw earlier. The key is to revive local political party organizations to broaden the scope of legitimate political activities, but to limit and monitor political fundraising to strengthen control.

This is an exclusive report by reporter Won Jong-jin.

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Politicians who are not members of
parliament have been restricted from raising political funds and running offices since 2004 when the so-called "Oh Se-hun Law" amendment to the Political Parties Act was passed after the "tea break" scandal broke out.

The idea was to get rid of the district party, which had a monthly maintenance fee of about 2 million won at the time, and play politics that did not cost money.

However, unlike incumbents, who can legally run their constituency offices and sponsorship associations, politicians outside the National Assembly have been blocked from their official avenues, especially for political newcomers in the rough terrain.

[Lawyer Cheon Haram/People's Power Suncheon Kap, Chairman of the Party Cooperation Committee: It costs money to do politics. If we ignore this and ignore it, only people with a lot of money will be in politics, or this will gradually go into the shadows. So that we can manage this systematically....] [Attorney Ki-ho Song/MDP Song Pa-eul Regional Committee: Through the space called the office of the National Assembly sponsorship association, the functions of the regional committee office, which are prohibited by law, are maintained. However, the National Assembly cannot even create such an expedient space outside...]



The National Assembly, which has been discussing supplementary measures for decades, has recently been understood to have prepared detailed measures through a special committee on political reform.

The plan is to limit the amount of political funds raised by local political organizations to 5 million won per year, and then spend only on cards so that the election commission can monitor the accounts of local organizations.

It also included making accounting training mandatory with one paid accounting clerk.

[Dr. Jin Young Chun/Legislative Investigator, Legislative Research Office, National Assembly: Things like accounting reporting are of course something that should be strictly done by the Central Election Commission, and in fact, various issues have been raised since shortly after the abolition of the district party.]

In a situation where people's hatred of politics has increased due to repeated excommunication related to money and valuables, there is an urgent need for structural reforms to enhance political utility by fostering vocal political activities while strengthening monitoring and control.

(Video Interview: Jeon Kyung-bae and Lee Chan-so, Video Editing: Chae Chul-ho)