| How are laws made in your native country? Have you heard of the Constitution's Article 53 of Korea? Maybe you've heard of it in class when you were in high school. It says that the power of legislation belongs to the National Assembly. To learn more about how laws are made in Korea, there are 3 big steps in lawmaking; submission of a bill, vote for bill, proclamation of the bill. First, government brings a bill to the assembly or more than 10 members of the National Assembly propose a bill. The bill may be based on the pledges of the assemblymen or on the public opinion formed. When the bill is reasonable, the members hold a seminar or a public hearing to canvass the public, or the bill may pass straight on to the standing committee. Second, it is National Assembly's right to judge and vote for the bill. The submitted bill is evaluated by the standing committee, and when it is decided by the standing committee, and then it is submitted to a plenary session. After discussion and inquiry on the bill, there are two conditions to fulfill to pass the bill. It is the presence of a majority of the current member and an approval from a majority of those in attendance. Then, the bill is transferred to the government, and the president proclaims the law to the public in 15 days. And the legislation goes into effect after 20 days from the proclamation, unless there is a special regulation. Moreover, when it is not proclaimed by the president within 15 days, the bill is determined as the legislation. The laws are not made right away or by itself. It takes a lot of time and has steps and regulations to follow. After all these submitting, voting, proclaiming steps, then the bill officially takes effect, and is what we call the law. Also, it is the law that we must observe. |
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
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Seunghyun Lee
ReplyDeleteWhat I like about your writing is the introduction, especially the hook. Frankly speaking, I never heard of that article before.
I think the words with numbers like 10members, 15days, 20days make your essay powerful.
Before comments, I really enjoyed your writing!
ReplyDelete1. First, your writing was very smooth to read overall and you included every important information. In fact, I really liked that your writing was very clear and easy to understand.
2. Your main point seems to be, of course, how the laws are made in Korea. You are explaing the three steps of making the laws.
3. Your choice of words is neat and explicit. I like 'fulfill' and 'go into effect'. I think these words are strong.
4. Thanks to you, I learned some words I didn't know before such as 'canvass', 'standing committee', and 'plenary'. However, I'm not sure about the introduction. I think the first three sentences in the introduction don't quite go with your topic. I mean, they are related to the topic but not really match with what you are going to write about next.
5. I just think it would be much better if you change your introduction little bit and include few more details, just in case, in the body paragraphs.
Cho, Hyun
ReplyDeleteI like your writing because it successfully explained the process of enacting laws in sequential order. Not only that your essay contains specific vocabularies for law and politics, which make your writing more clear and professional. One thing you should revise on your wrting is to add more details and explanations on your paragraphs. Overall, I like your writing
How are laws made in Korea?
ReplyDeleteHave you heard of the Constitution's Article 53 of Korea? Maybe you've heard of it in class when you were in high school. It says that the power of legislation belongs to the National Assembly, and it means the National Assembly has a power to make the law. To learn more about how laws are made in Korea, you should know there are 3 big steps in lawmaking; submission of a bill, voting for bill, proclamation of the bill.
First, government brings a bill to the assembly or more than 10 members of the National Assembly propose a bill. The bill may be based on the pledges of the assemblymen or on the public opinion appeared in the media at that time. If it is determined that the bill is reasonable, the members hold a seminar or a public hearing to canvass the public and to receive opinions from the experts, or the bill may just pass straight on to the standing committee to get consents of the members.
Second, it is National Assembly's right to judge and vote for the bill. The submitted bill is evaluated by the standing committee, and when it is decided by the standing committee, and then it is submitted to the plenary session. After the discussion and inquiry on the bill, there are two conditions to fulfill to pass the bill. It is the presence of a majority of the current member and an approval from a majority of those in attendance. When it is decided by the majority of those present, then it is passed to the government.
At last, when the bill is transferred to the government and the president proclaims the law to the public in 15 days unless the president has objection to it. Then the bill goes back to the National Assembly for the reconsideration. If that is not the case, the legislation goes into effect after 20 days from the proclamation, unless there is a special regulation. Moreover, when it is not proclaimed by the president within 15 days, the bill is still determined as the legislation.
The laws are not made right away or by itself. It takes a lot of time, efforts and has steps and regulations to follow. After all these submitting, voting, proclaiming steps, then the bill officially takes effect, and is what we call the law. And it becomes the law we have to observe.