Running for Assembly speaker at 83: Park Ji-won seeks 'final chance' to serve nation

Eighty-three-year-old Rep. Park Ji-won, the oldest sitting member of the National Assembly, is running in the Democratic Party of Korea’s race to become speaker for the latter half of the 22nd National Assembly. In a Facebook post late Tuesday, Park said he would “give everything” for the country, the public and President Lee Jae Myung, calling it “realistically his final challenge.” Born in 1942 and turning 84 in June, the liberal politician also suggested he would retire from politics after se

By The Korea Herald