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

And Reform Party's Lee Jun-seok took the time to sit down with students marking Teachers' Day on Thursday.

The talks took place over lunch at Seoul National University of Education, as he continued his campus cafeteria outreach to college students.

Also on the same day, 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.

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