Assembly (어셈블리 / Eosembeulli)

All characters, party names, and incidents appearing in this drama are fictitious creations.

Assemblywoman Hong Chan Mi was pissed.

How are other members reacting to Assemblyman Jo Woong Gyu's enrollment?

The response was not good.

They will like it when they see the things happening in the future.

What?

We've transferred in the new student.

Now we have to take care of the troublemaker.

Jin Sang Pil... I will expel him from the party.

For sure.

Episode 15

Gisong Island is our country's iconic migratory bird sanctuary.

Every year, tens of thousands of birds flock to the wintering grounds

and more than 30 of the world's rarest species can be observed there.

What do you mean you want to build a massive resort there?

Not there but next to it...

- Vice Minister of Ministry of Environment.- Yes.

This is an issue that is directly related to the raison d'être of the Ministry of Environment.

You can never endorse the Environmental Impact Assessment.

Man cannot be the only species populating the earth.

Animals have to live too and plants too. We all have to co-exist.

That way, we can achieve that sustainable development or whatever.

As Assemblywomen Cheon said, the Ministry of Environment should

firmly intervene.

Yes, after a careful review...

Point of order.

"Don't endorse the Environmental Impact Assessment."

"Intervene."

These are obviously and explicitly pejorative words.

At this rate, how can the Ministry of Environment work in a principled way

and conduct an unbiased review?

I request your retraction of the statements.

Assemblyman Jo, since when did you belong to the ruling party to side with it?

Be ashamed of yourself.

Please also retract your ad hominem statement toward a fellow assemblyman.

I too raise a point of order.

Vice Minister, please come to our Gookmin Party to do an environmental assessment.

- Excuse me?- Our party is supposedly a newly rising migratory bird habitat.

And supposedly we have a strange bird, too, which thinks of itself as an assemblyman.

You know ornithologists? Please bring them on your visit.

Please come without fail. Please I beg you.

How can you spit out whatever comes to your mind like that?

Did you see the meeting?

Assemblyman Jo is holding it in because he has a twinge of conscience.

What do you think would have happened with another assemblyman?

They would have raised a ruckus about taking you to a disciplinary action or suing you for slander.

Would I have said such a thing to another fellah?

It was because Jo Woong Bird spoke too brashly like that.

Don't even mouth the words of Gookmin Party being a migratory bird habitat.

You must refrain from all statements provoking the party for the time being.

- Why?- With Assemblyman Jo's enrollment, the ratio of the ruling and opposition party seats changed to 152:148.

The swing vote, the Indifferent-to-BH faction's sole weapon, is gone!

So you are saying even if I'm kicked out of the party, the majority government by the ruling party will be maintained.

That is right.

Even though we look very serene on the outside, the Indifferent-to-BH faction is facing a very serious crisis.

- Aide Choi, it seems like you don't know much now.- What?

Why is the swing vote the Indifferent-to-BH faction's sole weapon?

When we have secret weapons?

Flame Man, JSP.

And Aide Choi and Kids.

The only solution is to recruit a new assemblyman into the Indifferent-to-BH faction.

Unless that person is out of his mind, who would want to join the Indifferent-to-BH faction?

That is right, though. If they come, it's not like some special benefit will be waiting... was what you were going to say, right?

But lately, there is a person in the Gookmin Party who has lost her grasp on reality.

Who?- Who do you think it is?

Madam Hong?

Stop shoddy construction, waste of budget, and environmental destruction!

Stop it! Stop it!

- Stop shoddy construction!- Stop it! Stop it!

Stop shoddy construction, waste of budget, and environmental destruction!

Stop it! Stop it!

Stop shoddy construction, waste of budget and environmental destruction! Stop it!

Madam Hong?

Party Leader Yoon Jeong Soo is said to have taken umbrage at Assemblyman Jin's migratory bird habitat comment.

But we can't sanction him for that alone. We may get a media whiplash that way.

Secretary General, how about using the method I proposed...

No, that is too risky.

I'd like to hear your explanation about the election of the party chapter head in Seogyeong City Gap Voting District.

Secretary Lim, you may leave.

Please have a seat.

Answer me first.- Assemblywoman Hong.

If only you had given me some support,

I would not have lost so shamefully.

What is the reason you didn't help me?

Tell Assemblywoman Hong Chan Mi to schedule meetings with Assembly news desk chairs.

But... I can't get in touch with Assemblywoman Hong.

I think an order has been handed down from the Blue House.

The secretary general is a position that cannot and must not interfere with any election within the party.

Secretary General Baek!

Humbly accept the outcome.

The reason for your defeat was not lack of my help.

But would it not be because you failed to capture the party members' hearts?

I will cut to the chase. The possibility of my getting next year's nomination for the Seogyeong City Gap Voting District,

is there any remaining?

No, I will revise my question.

Inside you, is there any intent to give me a nomination?

That is enough for today.

I have done my best for you for the last four years.

Is this how you repay me?

Assemblywoman Hong.

When you were getting pressured by the Blue House to resign,

who appeared in this room first and shielded you...

Have you already forgotten about it?

You came to visit me in this room that day in order to shield me?

Yes.

Assemblywoman Hong, you merely got in my line.

What?- Rather than from Jin Sang Pil,

it would be far easier to get a nomination from the Baek Do Hyeon Secretariat. Such a thoroughly political calculation.

The subject toward whom you did your best for the last four years

was not Baek Do Hyeon, but a nomination. Can you deny that?

For whatever term that remains, have some faith in the voting district

and faithfully carry out your duties as a proportional representative.

Just do it while I'm telling you nicely.

I don't want to.- Let's do it.

- I said I don't want to.- Why don't we listen and be obedient?

You'll have to talk sense before I will listen.

Why is this nonsense?

Go outside and ask the secretaries...

whether seducing Assemblywoman Hong Chan Mi to join the Indifferent-to-BH faction makes any sense.

But the only recruitable person right now is Assemblywoman Hong Chan Mi.

Still, you have to look before you leap.

Just leap anywhere, when a viper is there? You'll get snapped at, bitten!

Even though Assemblywoman Hong has become too puffed up after sudden success at a young age,

originally she was a rather sensible woman.

Don't just say no but rise to the challenge.

Challenge what? I hate the idea.

Seriously!

- Let's do it already.- If you are so desperate, you can just go and do it!

Go and do it! Valiantly!

I can't do it because I'm scared. Of getting bitten. I will never do it!

If you keep doing this, I will disregard our ranks again.

You just try disregarding ranks, really.

The last time, I overlooked it because you were drunk, not because you were a girl.

And do you even know how heavy you are...

Where are you going in the middle of the conversation!

I have to go self-wash the car. It's really dirty.

So why did you send Secretary Byeon on a vacation, when we are dying from overwork!

Civil Service Exam Prep School Signs

Aish, really...

How can there be so many civil servant schools?

At this rate, everyone will become a civil servant...

Work hard.

Hyung, why does it takes days for you to find one person?

Hyung, are you perhaps screwing around somewhere?

Are you going to keep saying those things that get to me?

Hey. Do you really think Secretary Kim is around here?

To me, I don't think he's here.

He told Aide Choi by email that

he was with his buddies who studied together for the police exam.

So, hurry up and find him. Don't contact me until you find him. Jeez.

Hey, Sang Pil. Hey. Hey.

Why is it so hard to find one person?

Hong Chan MiAssemblywoman

The only person we can recruit now is Assemblywoman Hong.

Why are you loitering around another assemblyman's office?

I wasn't loitering. Since you are just across from me, I was wondering how you were doing and such.

Step aside.

Assemblywoman Hong.

I... about the committee chairperson election,

I know about it.

So? You came to congratulate someone when they're mourning?

No. That's nonsense.

If you are inclined,

in Indifferent-to-BH faction, there is this one good position.

Maybe you can come into our faction...

- What did you say?-It's not that I am trying to belittle you.

As for me, with sincerity...

If I go in, what are you going to do for me?

What?

Are you able to give me a nomination?

Come on, that would be hard for me.

What about political funds?

What about an executive party position or an organization?

All of that I can't...

Then, shut that mouth of yours.

But honestly, if you come into the Indifferent-to-BH faction,

guaranteed monthly income, room and board, things like that are impossible, but...

You will suffer like a dog but...-Stop!

But since both of us are in the same situation...

Stop. Stop and shut your mouth! Shut it!

If you ever start talking about frivolous things again,

then, you'll end up dying and I'll end up dying.

Did you see that just now?

Did you see the venomous snake ripping me to shreds?

You knew you couldn't get her to join, so you made me do it.

I was so scared, my smile muscles atrophied.

Welcome, Assemblyman Kang.

So, what brings you here?

A while ago, during the Secretary General upheaval,

I heard that there was something promised between you and our Assemblyman Park.

Are you talking about increasing the Anti-BH share to 40% in next year's general election?

Yes, as it's an important matter,

either a memorandum or written promise

would put him at ease, he said.

His personality is not by nature that meticulous.

But Secretary General Baek, you've been doing a lot of backstabbing.

That's why he's being this way. So you'll understand and write one, right?

Assemblyman Park, Baek Do Hyeon asks for a little more time.

I guess he's afraid that he might fall into our trap.

Don't worry.