Key Events on October 28th: Political and Government Affairs, President Lee Jae-myung Coverage

Key Political Events on October 28th: Prime Minister's Visit to Busan, National Assembly Inequality Index Release

Tuesday, October 28th, 2025, is slated to be a busy day for politics. President Lee Jae-myung of the Republic of Korea is scheduled to perform his regular duties. Activity is expected to be high across the government, the National Assembly, and the leadership of various political parties. Of particular note are the Prime Minister's visit to Busan and the National Assembly's release of research findings on a multidimensional inequality index. Party leaders will continue their public engagement activities related to people's livelihoods in the National Assembly and local areas.

The Prime Minister will attend a cabinet meeting at the Government Complex Seoul at 9:00 AM to discuss key policy issues. Subsequently, in the afternoon, the Prime Minister will visit Busan to inspect the site of the relocated Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries and attend the opening ceremony of the Korea Grand Festival, expressing the government's commitment to revitalizing the cultural tourism industry. In the evening, the Prime Minister will attend a welcome dinner for the APEC CEO Summit in Gyeongju, Gyeongsangbuk-do, engaging with business leaders and exploring ways to advance the South Korean economy. The Prime Minister's visits to Busan and Gyeongju are interpreted as a move focused on boosting the local economy and strengthening international cooperation. The government hopes that this visit will promote balanced regional development and contribute to enhancing South Korea's international standing by successfully hosting the APEC CEO Summit.

At the National Assembly, the Speaker will host the first National Assembly-led research result presentation on the multidimensional inequality index at 9:30 AM in the first seminar room of the Assembly Members' Office Building. This presentation is intended to analyze South Korea's inequality problems in depth and seek policy alternatives. The National Assembly plans to actively promote legislative activities to address inequality based on the results of this research. In addition, the Foreign Affairs and Unification Committee will travel to Gyeongju for a comprehensive audit to check the preparations for the APEC Summit. The Minister and Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs will accompany the Foreign Affairs and Unification Committee on their audit trip to Gyeongju, while the First Vice Minister will attend the cabinet meeting and the Foreign Affairs and Unification Committee's comprehensive audit. The Minister and Vice Minister of Unification will also attend the Foreign Affairs and Unification Committee's comprehensive audit to answer questions on issues related to inter-Korean relations. The Minister of National Defense will attend the cabinet meeting to discuss national defense issues. The Chairperson of the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission will attend a parliamentary audit in Seoul to report on the status of handling complaints and measures to prevent corruption. The Chairperson of the Personal Information Protection Commission will attend a comprehensive audit at the National Assembly in Yeouido, Seoul, to answer questions on personal information protection policies.

Leaders of each political party will participate in various schedules in the National Assembly and local areas. The leader of the People Power Party will meet with Colin Crooks, the British Ambassador to South Korea, at 10:30 AM in the main building of the National Assembly, and at 3:00 PM, the leader will attend a real estate policy meeting with young people, titled "A Future Without Housing Worries Starts with Young People's Ideas," at the Mapo Seoul Youth Center to listen to their opinions on housing issues. The floor leader of the People Power Party will preside over a countermeasures meeting for the parliamentary audit at 8:30 AM in the main building of the National Assembly and will attend the 2025 comprehensive audit - Foreign Affairs and Unification Committee at 10:00 AM in the main building of the National Assembly. The chairman and floor leader of the Rebuilding Korea Party's emergency response committee will hold a press conference in front of the Supreme Court at 1:30 PM, demanding the disclosure of the Supreme Court's sedition meeting records and the resignation of Justice Cho Hee-dae. The floor leader of the Progressive Party will host a human rights discussion at 10:00 AM in the Assembly Members' Office Building to strengthen the protection of immigrants' human rights, and will hold press conferences at the National Assembly Communication Center at 10:40 AM and 10:45 AM to announce the enactment of a bill on real estate blind trusts for high-ranking public officials and to urge the revision of the Urban Railroad Act to strengthen the public nature and safety of private urban railways, respectively. The leader of the Reform Party will attend the Sunnylands Initiative Seoul Convening II at The Plaza Hotel Seoul at 9:20 AM, and the floor leader will appear on SBS-R's Kim Tae-hyun's Political Show at 7:20 AM and SBS's Pyeon Sang-wook's News Briefing at 2:30 PM. The leader of the Basic Income Party will attend the administrative safety committee's parliamentary audit at the Gyeongsangnam-do Provincial Office at 10:00 AM and at the Gyeongsangnam-do Provincial Police Agency at 2:00 PM.

The leader of the Democratic Party of Korea will attend the National Defense Committee's on-site inspection of the parliamentary audit/Hanwha Aerospace in Changwon, and the floor leader will hold a countermeasures meeting for the parliamentary audit at 9:00 AM in the floor leader's office in the main building of the National Assembly. As such, each political party is expected to focus on checking people's livelihood issues and presenting policy alternatives through various methods such as parliamentary audits, policy meetings, and press conferences, and strengthening communication with the public. In particular, the Prime Minister's visit to Busan and the leaders of each party's activities related to people's livelihoods are expected to contribute to raising public interest in the upcoming political schedule. In addition, the National Assembly's release of research findings on the multidimensional inequality index is expected to spark in-depth discussions on South Korea's inequality problems and provide an opportunity to improve policies. The government, the National Assembly, and each political party must strive to bring about real changes in the lives of the people through these activities.