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South Korea’s Democrats Rush Electronic Voting Machine Bill Thirteen lawmakers from the Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) and the Rebuilding Korea Party (RKP) have introduced a bill requiring the use of electronic voting machines for overseas voting. However, the bill allows just one day for public feedback, drawing fierce criticism that lawmakers are trying to rush it through without proper public scrutiny. The bill was introduced by Rep. Kim Young-ho, a prominent China expert within the Democratic Party. Kim studied international relations at Peking University from 1993 to 1997. He also served as publisher of Hanseong Wolbo, a Korean-language newspaper for Korean expatriates in China, and headed the Korea-China Cultural Institute and the Korea-China Future Institute. In 2016, Kim opposed the deployment of the U.S. THAAD missile defense system in South Korea. He also led a delegation of Democratic Party lawmakers to Beijing to discuss the THAAD deployment with Chinese academics, at a time when China was strongly opposing the deployment.