President Lee meets with leadership of five minor political parties

President Lee Jae Myung has called for close cooperation between his administration and the country's five minor parties at the parliament.

The comments were made over lunch at the presidential residence where the president sat down with the leaderships of the Rebuilding Korea Party Jinbo Party Reform Party Basic Income Party and the Social Democratic Party.

The talks also covered the minor parties' thoughts regarding the tasks that they believe the new administration should seek to actively address such as improving working conditions reforming the prosecution as well as party systems and pardoning politicians and labor activists deemed unfairly targeted by the former administration.

Speaking to reporters Senior Presidential Secretary for Political Affairs Woo Sang-ho added that the president intended to review the thoughts shared.