Overview
- Opposition leader Jang Dong-hyeok’s fast reached day five as he pressed for two separate special counsel probes and rejected a Democratic Party-backed bill targeting former President Yoon Suk Yeol and first lady Kim Keon Hee.
- People Power Party members on the Strategy and Finance Committee vowed to fully boycott nominee Lee Hye-hoon’s confirmation, after the committee chair formally refused to convene a hearing over missing documents.
- The presidential office said it still expects Lee to address questions through a hearing, even as Monday’s session remains in doubt due to the standoff.
- Lee, tapped to head the soon-to-be-created Ministry of Planning and Budget, faces reported accusations that include real estate speculation, improper apartment subscriptions, harassment of aides, inheritance tax evasion, and favoritism in her child’s military service.
- The gridlock deepened as the PPP battled internal fallout from the expulsion of former leader Han Dong-hoon, while the Democratic Party confronted pushback over a move to revive a one-member-one-vote rule and criticized Jang’s protest as performative.