Assembly (어셈블리 / Eosembeulli)

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

From now on...

for you and the Pro-BH faction...

I will do anything.

I came here to tell you my determination.

Leave.

Please forgive me for my past transgressions.

Right... right now, what are you doing?

What is this?

Assemblyman Jin Sang Pil Introduces 0 Bills!

This article doesn't make any sense!

Episode 6 Ah, seriously.

How long has it been since the assemblyman joined the Assembly?!

Aide, you are friendly with this reporter on their news desk. Hurry and ask him to change it for you.

If I go through the desk, I will get singled out by field reporters.

Where's Secretary Kim?

Where do you think a person who ran laps in the midsummer heat went?

Where?

If this happens one more time, I will let you go.

Secretary Kim.

Aide Choi told me to give this to you.

Ah, yes.

Aide Choi does try to look tough on her job.

She's not doing that because she hates you.

So don't be too sad about it.

I'm not sad.

She was rather cool, I thought.

What?

How proud she is of herself, I only realized this time around.

Not everyone has that kind of pride.

Secretary Kim, you look at people from such a positive angle.

In my eyes, she appears like a returned single (divorcee) flailing with the only thing she has left, her pride.

Returned single?

Reporter Kim... My old man entered the National Assembly only yesterday.

You have to understand that he has no legislative track record.

The 3 assemblymen who entered together with Assemblyman Jin...

seem to have introduced a few bills.

Eh, commonsensically speaking, would those be proper bills?

They must have been recycled bills that were scrapped a long time ago.

So?

Please delete my assemblyman's name from the article headline.

If there is a good item, I will reserve it just for you, huh?

A salad-green guy with such a stiff neck (haughty)!

May he get a cervical disc herniation!

Who is this?

Hello.

- Have you been well? - Yes.

What brings you here, Assemblywoman?

I'm here to give my briefing.

I'm a woman whose job is spokeswoman, you know.

- How about you, In Kyung? - Why would a woman whose job is to be an aide come here?

I came to fix an article.

In Kyung, now I see that you're the type who gives in to reality really fast.

What kind of article is it?

So unlike you to be procrastinating on your job.

Look through it all.

25. Hong Chan Mi 22.9%

What is this?

For all intents and purposes, I was a woman whose job was being a lawyer, but what?

In the Assembly, my rank as a legislator is 25th?!

If I'm the 25th out of 300, what is the GPA tier?

You're probably about... in the second tier.

I'm a person who graduated from a foreign language high school (good high school) with a first-tier GPA.

Within this month, make it the first tier and within the top 5 in the whole school.

But Assemblywoman, that is... if you give us a little bit of time...

I don't have that kind of time.

Starting next month, I will send everyone, except the female secretary and intern, to my hometown district.

Didn't you send Secretary Sim packing and hire a local office manager?

Is an electoral district some bathroom toilet bowl?

Can it be loosened up and unclogged by one person?!

Still, Assemblywoman, wouldn't that be a bit harsh...?

This person, seriously, now!

Don't expect humane treatment from a proportional representative (not elected, but appointed) with less than 10 months remaining in her term.

Because right now I can see nothing beyond blazing a trail in my own constituency and getting a party nomination.

Everyone, bear this in mind. From now on, for the Office of Assemblywoman Hong Chan Mi,

the first objective is to get a party nomination, the second is a party nomination and the third...

also is to get a party nomination.

The VIP (President of Korea) is deeply worried about the second half of the parliamentary year.

It is understandable.

When there are mountains of bills to be processed,

the opposition party, with the next year's general election in mind, will take uniformly hardline positions.

Leaving the opposition parties on the back burner, why don't you first do something about the Anti-BH faction?

They keep throwing a monkey wrench at every turn and it is really maddening.

Please tell the Elder that I will do a thorough housekeeping job.

You have to do well.

If even the latter half of the parliamentary year goes awry...

we will be lame ducks.

["Lame duck" -an elected official still in office after the election of his/her successor]

Do the Party Leader's job right!

You are the ruling party's leader, not some frontman for the Blue House!

But are you saying, right now, that we should make a strategic nomination?

Then, I can't participate in a meeting like this!

Did something happen at the Blue House?

You don't look so well.

I'd better tie up the Anti-BH faction.

How?

By using our power, the right to give party nominations for the next general election.

-Party nomination rights? - I should make a special committee under direct party control to improve the party nomination rules.

These assemblymen at the end of their terms... Just the sound of "nom" from party nomination will make their hair stand on end.

Just the fact that the party nomination talk has started within the party will be enough to freeze them with fear.

So you are saying, frighten them to make them follow meekly.

Assemblywoman Hong, please openly make a statement that we should make a special committee to improve the party nomination rules.

Are you asking me to bear the brunt?

I know it's burdensome in many ways.

However, punches like this must be thrown, even among the Pro-BH faction,

by my direct associate assemblyman to deliver more impact.

But, Secretary General...

Just one wrong move and I might become the target for Anti-BH hatred and be forced out of the spokeswoman position.

While trying to make my own constituency,

the only title I can flaunt is the longest-serving spokeswoman for the party.

Things like this must be undertaken by someone with adversarial zeal, like you, Assemblywoman Hong.

Secretary General...

So far, I have never refused anything you asked me to do.

To the extent that even though I'm a married woman, they mockingly call me Secretary General's Yeouido wife.

- Assemblywoman Hong... - I am sorry.

Please leave me out of this just this once.

Don't you want to see me in the Assembly next year?

Aigoo... Hey, everyone!

At least put a popsicle in your mouth while doing that.

You're doing this to survive.

What a shame it will be if you get heat stroke and fall sick.

Here. Everyone share.

Those of you fasting, there is ice water here. Take it.

Oh, thank you. Come here, everyone.

Everyone, hurry and come.

Hello?

Assemblyman Jin, it was Aide Choi and she said if we don't return promptly, she will sack me.

You are back?

Yes. Did everyone eat?

- Yes. - Assemblyman.

Where were you?

I was outside to get some fresh air.

Please see me for a second.

What's wrong with her?

Jeez. I'm going to go crazy.

Aide Choi is a bit rough toward the assemblyman.

Everyone in the Assembly Hall acknowledges that she is an assemblywoman-level aide.

An aide is an aide, what assemblywoman-level?

Then, what is our Assemblyman?

What do you mean by that? Obviously, he is an intern-level assemblyman.

What is this? Dear Secretary General Baek Do Hyeon

As you know, as a first-term assemblyman, I am lacking in many ways.

If I ever did something to displease you, please understand that it was a mistake made out of inexperience, and I beg for your generous forgiveness...

It's a letter to Secretary General Baek. Please transcribe it in your own handwriting.

Forget it.

If you read it, you will see that it is not a real letter of remorse or apology.

This is just a pretext and I will personally persuade him.

Forget it, you can take this away.

I guess you are doing this out of hurt pride, but this is nothing in Yeouido.

There are countless spineless people who even kneel before the influential party members at times of party nominations.

I said, just take that away.

Assemblyman, at this rate, you will be branded as an assemblyman without any sense of presence.

You may just disappear without even being able to start working for your goals. So...

Aide Choi! Enough already.

I agreed to the change of the standing committees as you told me to do.

The work I want to do right now is not this.

Let me do what I want to do.

I will listen.

What is the work that you want to do?

I...

So that a person like me is not produced again,

I want to make a law that prohibits layoffs.

You can draw up as many bills as you wish.

But enacting them into law is not within your present power.

Then, a law that does not let mom and pop stores, like Department Head Oh's, just go belly up!

That also would be impossible, using your current influence.

Then what do I do?

Should I just swagger and sit around like this?

Just hand out popsicles to the people demonstrating outside the Assembly Hall, huh? Stay that way?

Did I become an assemblyman to do those things?

Don't overstate things. I am simply telling you about your limits as a first-term assemblyman.

But you didn't say those things when you told me to transfer to another committee. So you tricked me.

What do you mean by tricking you? Please do not say that again.

Just answer your phone.

Yes, Secretary General.

This evening, I have a dinner get-together with close assemblymen at a Korean restaurant called Gyeongwon.

I'll have a seat reserved for you.

Yes, I understand, Secretary General.

Later.

What did the Secretary General say?

Tonight, at a place called Gyeongwon or something, with his close assemblymen...

he will have a dinner and he asked me to come.

This is why seniors are different.

In the end, the Secretary General first held out his hand.

In great contrast to you, whose pride was hurt at a trivial thing like this.

At any rate, congratulations on your escape from ostracism.

Oh, I'm so grateful to be congratulated.

Today's meeting is probably among Secretary General Baek's close associate assemblymen.

Close associates?

Even within the Pro-BH faction, there are many sub-factions depending on the patrons or backgrounds.

Of course, the core is Secretary General Baek's close associate assemblymen whom he directly cares for.

- Assemblyman, you are here? - How are you?

Everyone is here already.

Oh, is that right?

Aide Choi, you did very well this time.

About what?

About Assemblyman Jin kneeling before Secretary General Baek, you know.

It was a divine move.

Who knelt? Assemblyman Jin did?

Weren't you the one who put him up to it?