(3rd LD) Parties reach agreement on voting on key bills
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's rival parties struck an agreement Tuesday to end a voting standoff over hotly contested bills including a free trade deal with the U.S., raising hopes that parliament will get back to normal after a three-week paralysis.
At a meeting earlier in the day, partisan negotiators bridged differences on when to vote on ratifying the Korea-U.S. free trade agreement (FTA) and some 80 other government-initiated bills as the National Assembly's extraordinary session nears its end.
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