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A study group formed by first- and second-term members of the People Power Party, deliberately minimizing factional ties, is launching.
The group, provisionally named Policy 2830 and composed of first- and second-term People Power Party lawmakers, will hold its founding meeting at 10:30 a.m. on the 30th at the National Assembly members’ office building.
Kim Do-yeon, who served as minister of Education, Science and Technology under the Lee Myung-bak administration and is the former president of POSTECH, will deliver the keynote address on economic policy.
The group will organize into three research tracks—foreign affairs and security, economy and welfare, and politics—to pursue policy work in each area.
Second-term lawmaker Park Hyeong-su will chair the group, and a first-term lawmaker will serve as secretary. Participants include second-term lawmakers Kim Hyeong-dong, Bae Jun-young, Seo Il-jun, Jo Jeong-hun, and Choi Hyung-du, and first-term lawmakers Kang Sun-young, Kim Jang-gyeom, Kwak Kyu-taek, Park Chung-kwon, Seo Ji-young, Lee Sang-hwi, Lee Jong-wook, Jo Seung-hwan, Choi Bo-yun, Choi Su-jin, and Choi Eun-seok.
Lawmaker Park Soo-min reportedly spent the past month persuading colleagues individually to assemble the roughly 20-member group.
Participants said they joined to help rebuild the party’s policy capabilities. One participant told News1, \”With conservative parties and politics in crisis, solid policy backing is essential if we want to stand up again. This group will develop robust policies so we can present ourselves as a governing party.\”
The organizers say the group intentionally minimized factional representation: it excludes figures close to Jang Dong-hyeok and former leader Han Dong-hoon, as well as members of the Alternative and Future faction.
They emphasize, however, that the focus was not on deliberately excluding any faction but on reaching out first to experts without strong factional ties. They also limited membership to first- and second-term lawmakers to avoid the appearance of political consolidation if more senior MPs joined.
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