Lawmakers pass some 100 bills in final plenary session of 20th Nat'l Assembly
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Just ten days before the 20th National Assembly comes to an end, its final plenary session was convened today, in which lawmakers passed some 100 non-contentious bills.
Those bills will simplify the online identity-verification process, strengthen the crackdown on digital sex crimes and push for the reinvestigation of unresolved past issues of state violence.
Our political correspondent Kim Mok-yeon reports.
Rival party lawmakers have given the green light to more than one-hundred bills Wednesday in the current Assembly's final plenary session
One of the most anticipated was legislation to allow the use of privately managed identity verification systems online.
For the past 21 years, online transactions have used a system of public certificates, which have been cited as a major hurdle to the development of the ICT industry and, among senior citizens and foreigners, for access to banking and other services.
The revised Digital Signature Act will enable the authorities to give legal status to security tools developed by private companies, and give them the same function as the current public certificate system... once they're proven to be safe and convenient.
Other bills passed include one to launch a committee to reinvestigate unresolved issues related to past violence committed by the state, and another to make it mandatory for portal sites to delete illegal sex-related materials and block access to those materials.
And to stop COVID-19, they also passed a bill to more closely monitor the movements of short-term visitors to Korea.
Now at its end, the 20th National Assembly leaves thousands of bills still pending, having passed less than 37 percent of the bills it introduced.
"The 20th assembly will officially wrap up next Friday, and South Korea will welcome its 21st National Assembly on May 30th.
The lawmakers' first task is to elect a parliamentary speaker... and as the sole candidate, Park Byeong-seug from the ruling party looks set to take the helm.
Kim Mok-yeon, Arirang News.
Just ten days before the 20th National Assembly comes to an end, its final plenary session was convened today, in which lawmakers passed some 100 non-contentious bills.
Those bills will simplify the online identity-verification process, strengthen the crackdown on digital sex crimes and push for the reinvestigation of unresolved past issues of state violence.
Our political correspondent Kim Mok-yeon reports.
Rival party lawmakers have given the green light to more than one-hundred bills Wednesday in the current Assembly's final plenary session
One of the most anticipated was legislation to allow the use of privately managed identity verification systems online.
For the past 21 years, online transactions have used a system of public certificates, which have been cited as a major hurdle to the development of the ICT industry and, among senior citizens and foreigners, for access to banking and other services.
The revised Digital Signature Act will enable the authorities to give legal status to security tools developed by private companies, and give them the same function as the current public certificate system... once they're proven to be safe and convenient.
Other bills passed include one to launch a committee to reinvestigate unresolved issues related to past violence committed by the state, and another to make it mandatory for portal sites to delete illegal sex-related materials and block access to those materials.
And to stop COVID-19, they also passed a bill to more closely monitor the movements of short-term visitors to Korea.
Now at its end, the 20th National Assembly leaves thousands of bills still pending, having passed less than 37 percent of the bills it introduced.
"The 20th assembly will officially wrap up next Friday, and South Korea will welcome its 21st National Assembly on May 30th.
The lawmakers' first task is to elect a parliamentary speaker... and as the sole candidate, Park Byeong-seug from the ruling party looks set to take the helm.
Kim Mok-yeon, Arirang News.