▲ Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon and Seongnam Mayor Lee Jae-myung pose with attendees to the town hall meeting which kicks off on January 3 in the conference room of the National Assembly for the purpose of finding out the solutions for the livelihood problems facing the people.(Yon Yoon-jeong)
Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon and Seongnam Mayor Lee Jae-myung, two of potential presidential candidates from the opposition party had their views in common that labor rights should be protected in advance to reduce the inequality which is the most serious problem facing the Korean society.
The town hall meeting was jointly organized by a group of NGOs such as the MINBYUN-Lawyers for a Democratic Society with the invitations of two guest speakers of Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon and Seongnam Mayor Lee Jae-myung.
reported by Yon Yoon-jeong
translated by Kim Sung-jin