Major political parties have reneged on their pledges to enact political reforms and introduce fresh blood into the political arena for the upcoming April 10 general elections, and this failure is glaringly evident in the candidate roster, which shows no significant departures from the composition seen in the previous parliamentary elections.
The ruling party on Friday announced its recruitment of two scientists and a legal expert as three new candidates to run in the April parliamentary election. Lee Re-na, a professor of biomedical engineering at Ewha Womans University; Kang Chul-ho, Chairman of the Korea Association of Robot Industry and Jun Sang-bum, former judge who served at the Uijeongbu branch of the Seoul District Court were the latest batch of c.