60 Percent of Lawmakers Accumulated Their Properties

The Government Officials Ethics Committee of the National Assembly released the changes of properties of the 268 lawmakers (except for the lawmakers in the Administration) and the high-ranking government officials in the National Assembly.

161 lawmakers (60 percent) accumulated their properties while 101 lawmakers (38 percent) suffered from the loss of their properties. The properties of 6 lawmakers were not changed at all.

51 congressperson made a fortune over 100 million won last year and 30 lawmakers had lost more than 100 million won during last year.

Rep. Chung Mong-Jun (independent) made more than 54,607,920,000 won, followed by Rep. Kim Moo-Sung (GNP, 1,503,000,000 won), and Rep. Kim Kyung-Jae (NMDP, 1,284,730,000 won). On the contrary, Rep. Park Sang-Hee (NMDP) ranked at the top of the property losses (9,962,490,000 won), followed by Rep. Chang Jeong-On (2,215,420,000 won) and Rep. Lee Jeong-Il (1,889,800,000 won).

The numbers of the lawmakers who made a fortune over 100 million won are 21 from NMDP, 25 from GNP, 3 from ULD, and 1 independent and the numbers who suffered the reduction of their properties over 100 million won are 16 from NMDP, 13 from GNP, and 1 from ULD.

Rep. Chung Mong-Jun turns out to be the richest lawmaker who has the property estimated 172,043,920,000 won.

Sung-Won Park swpark@donga.com