Ex-senior Nat'l Assembly official makes bid for Inter-Parliamentary Union secretary general

Jun Sang-soo, former deputy secretary general for legislative affairs at the National Assembly Secretariat, has submitted a bid to become the next secretary general of a global association of national parliaments, officials said Monday. Jun recently submitted his candidacy for the top job at the Geneva-based Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) that facilitates parliamentary diplomacy and seeks to promote democratic governance. The 181-member organization will elect its new secretary general during its general assembly in Istanbul next April, who will serve a four-year term. The organization's executive committee is set to review a shortlist of 20 candidates later this year, before narrowing it down to five final candidates. National Assembly Speaker Woo Won-shik recommended Jun for the role, noting the "resiliency" of Korea's democracy after the brief imposition of martial law last year, which was lifted by the National Assembly. "After the martial law crisis, the Republic of Korea's National Assembly has demonstrated a surprising level of democratic resiliency," Woo said in his recommendatioWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times