The presidential office is under fire for a plan to spend 87.9 billion won ($63 million) of the government budget to construct a new state guest house, which far exceeds President .
On the first day of the National Convention to select the new Democratic Party leadership, Rep. Lee Jae-myung won a landslide. As a result of voting by members of the Rights Party in Gangwon and Daegu and North Gyeongsang Province, they started to take a big lead with nearly 75% of the votes.