New party in the making

Former Saenuri Party lawmaker Lee Jae-oh, left, talks with former National Assembly Speaker Chung Ui-hwa during a meeting at the National Assembly, Tuesday, to discuss the establishment of a new political party. Lee is leading a move to create a new centrist party, tentatively named "Evergreen Korea Party," by January. About 1,000 people gathered for the meeting, where Lee was chosen as co-head of a steering committee along with former lawmaker Choi Byung-guk and ex-Marine Corps commander Chun Do-bong. / Yonhap