Reform Party candidate calls for higher inmate productivity, slams conservatives calling for merger

Also on the campaign trail.

Reform Party candidate Lee Jun-seok sat down with students at Seoul National University of Education in light of Teachers' Day today.

The talks took place over lunch as he continued his campus cafeteria outreach to college students.

Earlier today, he announced prison reform proposing inmates participate in higher value labor such as machinery assembly and digital operations rather than tasks like sewing and cleaning.

He added such labor would serve to raise the standard of economic and social contribution by those incarcerated.

Meanwhile, in response to inquiry about a coalition with the main conservative camp he condemned those seeking "political engineering".