Dispute over redrawing electoral districts

Banners and signs calling for resolving the problem of rural representation when lawmakers rearrange electoral districts are laid on the floor of the National Assembly, Seoul, Sunday. The ruling and opposition parties remain at odds over how to readjust electoral districts for the forthcoming parliamentary elections scheduled for April next year as the new scheme envisions that the number of urban electoral districts will increase while rural constituencies will decrease in accordance with the steady drop in the rural population. / Korea Times photo by Seo Jae-hoon