The presidential office has proposed that a meeting between President Yoon Suk Yeol and main opposition Democratic Party(DP) chief Lee Jae-myung be held swiftly without coordinating topics in advance. 

Senior presidential secretary for political affairs Hong Chul-ho said in a briefing on Thursday that the top office had made the proposal during its second round of working-level talks with the DP on arranging the Yoon-Lee meeting. 

Hong said a meeting between the president and the head of the main opposition party should serve as a venue where all topics related to state affairs, including pending issues related to people’s livelihood, be discussed without restraint. 

Hong said Lee’s chief secretary, Cheon Jun-ho, had agreed to give a reply later in time as the proposal must undergo the party’s leadership’s deliberation. 

On reasons why topics that the DP presented cannot be coordinated in advance, an official of the top office said there are risks of the National Assembly Act being violated and that there are some matters in the proposed topics that cannot be handled by the president.