Different styles of congress
Every four years, South Korea holds an election to select the next congressman. The 2024 Korean election has finished causing a lot of problems. Despite the shocking loss of the republican party, few third parties were able to secure some seats in the congress. This is one of the few cases where the third party got this much support. Today, I will introduce the different voting styles of South Korea and the United States.
Both the Korean and US government have a congress which makes checks and balances between judicial and executive branches. However, the Korean congress is composed of only one congress with three hundred members. 254 congressmen are elected physically by person while the rest of the seats are chosen by the party by its popularity. Only the South Korea government and Taiwan government implement this system. In the past, the Japanese government used to use this system, but not anymore. On the other hand, the United States Congress is divided into two chambers, house of representatives and senate. The house of representatives are composed of four hundred thirty five members and senators are composed of one hundred members. All members of the United State congressmen are elected physically.
One difference between the Korea congress and State congress is the number of years they are in office. The Korean congressmen get four years term and there is no limit of the terms that they can be in the office. The U.S. congressman has different years in office depending on their chamber. The House of Representatives gets two years in office and the Senate gets six years in office. One interesting fact about the senators is that one third of the senators are changed every two years in order to keep fresh brains in Congress.
Both the South Korea congress and house of representatives distribute the district based on the population. For example, some states get more seats in the house of representatives than other states. However, the states have fixed numbers of senators in order to distribute fair powers in between states.
