National Assembly plenary session set for 24th...Opposition protests, saying "Run it by yourselves"

[Financial News] With the ruling and opposition parties failing on the 23rd to agree on the schedule for the next plenary session, the Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) is set to convene the session on the 24th as previously announced.
The National Assembly Steering Committee held a full meeting that day and, led by the DPK, passed a revised motion to move the plenary session forward from the 26th to the 24th.
Chun Joon-ho, the DPK secretary on the Steering Committee and senior deputy floor leader for operations, said at the meeting, "The People Power Party has continuously taken people’s livelihood bills hostage, which has delayed and blocked the handling of key state tasks, reforms, and livelihood-related legislation. In this unavoidable situation, we have repeatedly demanded that a plenary session be held on the 24th, with the determination to pass even one more bill." He urged, "The country is facing many difficulties on multiple fronts right now. I ask for active cooperation in passing the bills needed to carry out state affairs."
Yoo Sang-beom, the People Power Party’s secretary on the Steering Committee and senior deputy floor leader for operations, objected to what he described as the DPK’s unilateral change to the plenary schedule. He stated, "This is the first time I have seen a schedule agreed upon by the Speaker of the National Assembly and the floor leaders of both parties being revised again by the Steering Committee," and criticized, "If the DPK is going to change things unilaterally like this, then perhaps the DPK should just run the National Assembly on its own from now on."
As the gap between the parties over the plenary session schedule remained unresolved, People Power Party lawmakers left the chamber just before the vote on the revised motion.

gowell@fnnews.com Reporter Kim Hyeong-gu Reporter