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In front of the National Assembly, which represents the will of the people, protest tents full of desperate voices are being organized today, overcoming the mid-winter cold.
Even in the new year 2023, I am knocking on the door of the National Assembly and keeping my seat.
Reporter Son Hyo-jung met.
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In front of the main gate of the National Assembly Building in Yeouido, Seoul, there are about 10 tents set up on the pavement which is about 200m long.
All of the tents contain urgent requests to the National Assembly.
Let’s listen first hand to the dire situation we have no choice but to spend on the road in the middle of winter.
Workers who demand the ‘Yellow Envelope Act’, which limits indiscriminate compensation for union strikes, stood in front of the National Assembly today.
At the end of last year, there was even a hunger strike for 30 days, but the legislative discussion is still at a standstill.
Even the Democratic Party, which has a majority of seats, cannot agree on how to define the concept of ‘consumer’ in Article 2 of the Union Act, so the bill does not go out of the standing committee period.
[유성욱 / 택배노조 CJ대한통운본부 본부장 : 수차례 국회에 호소도 하고 탄원도 했지만 전혀 진척이 없는 상황에서 이번에야말로 이번 회기에서야말로 반드시 노조법 2조·3조가 개정되지 않으면….]
It has been a new year in 2023, the 4th year of the Corona 19 epidemic, but ‘normal daily life’ is still far away for victims of vaccine side effects.
Victims and their families say the range of compensation for vaccination damage is too narrow, and they are urging a special law.
[김두경 / 코로나19 백신피해자가족협의회 회장 : (백신 피해 신고 건수가) 48만 건이 넘습니다. 왜 우리가 이렇게 길거리에 나올 수밖에 없었고 왜 우리 부모가, 우리 자식이 이렇게 죽을 수밖에 없었고 중증으로 고생할 수밖에 없었던 건지를 조사해달라는 거예요. 우리 삶이 다 망가졌어요.]
Across the street, a marquee is demanding the extension of the safe fare system for cargo workers, which was a representative ‘sunset bill’.
Finally, as the ruling and opposition parties failed to reach an agreement on the extension, the effect of the safe price system disappeared from the new year.
[박귀란 / 화물연대 전략조직국장 : 지난해 1월부터 국회와 정부를 쫓아다니면서 지금부터 논의해야 안정적으로 문제를 해결할 수 있다고 여러 차례 논의를 해왔습니다. (그런데) 3월에 대선이 있으니 3월 이후에 논의하자, 5월이 지나면 논의하자 이런 식으로….]
Even now, people guarding the tent in front of the National Assembly say that the threshold of the National Assembly looks too high and heavy.
It is time to look back to see if the National Assembly, which had to listen to the voices of the people, without turning a blind eye to them, was engrossed in controversy and political conflict rather than listening and discussing.
This is Hyo-jung’s Son YTN.
Son of YTN Hyo-jeong (sonhj0715@ytn.co.kr)
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