South Korea’s National Assembly Speaker Woo Won-shik on Sunday proposed holding a national referendum on constitutional revision concurrently with the upcoming early presidential election. Woo called for a reformed political structure that decentralizes power and strengthens checks and balances, emphasizing that the current constitutional framework, designed decades ago, no longer aligns with the political realities and social demands of contemporary South Korea.

Woo’s proposal sparked immediate backlash from within the main opposition Democratic Party (DP), particularly from lawmakers aligned with party leader Lee Jae-myung. They arguedthat the priority should be addressing the fallout from former President Yoon Suk-yeol’s removal