The National Election Broadcasting Debate Commission announced that it will hold the “1^st Policy Debate for the National Assembly Elections” for two hours at 10 AM on 30^th January leading up to the 19^th National Assembly elections, as inviting heads of policy committees in 7 political parties.

It is expected that heads of policy committees will make a heated discussion on the subject: ‘Economic Policies to Address Social Polarization’; ‘Policies for Small and Big Businesses’ and ‘Measures for farmers, fishermen, small traders and enterprisers’.

The group of debaters will be consisted of: vice chair of policy committee in the Grand National Party; National Assembly member from the Democratic Unity Party; head of policy committee in the Liberty Forward Party; secretary-general of the Future Hope Alliance; head of policy committee in the Unified Progressive Party; representative of the Creative Korea Party; and deputy representative of the New Progressive Party.

The commission announced that the debate will be presided over by broadcaster Jung-A Yu and will be aired live on MBC, KBS and SBS nationwide, as it asked voters to have a keen interest in the debate.