assemblykor: Korean National Assembly Data for Political Science Education

Provides ready-to-use datasets from the Korean National Assembly for teaching quantitative methods in political science. Includes seven built-in datasets covering legislator metadata, bills, asset declarations, policy seminars, committee speeches, plenary vote tallies, and member-level roll call votes.

Built-in datasets

• legislators: 963 MP records (20th-22nd assemblies)

• bills: 64,900 legislative bills

• wealth: 3,215 legislator-year asset declarations

• seminars: 5,962 legislator-year seminar records

• speeches: 15,795 speech records (22nd, Science & ICT Committee)

• votes: 8,611 plenary vote tallies (20th-22nd assemblies)

• roll_calls: 549,513 member-level roll call votes (22nd assembly)

Download functions

• get_bill_texts: 64,900 bill propose-reason texts

• get_proposers: 825,283 co-sponsorship records

• get_speech_tokens: 663,582 morpheme tokens for the speeches dataset (Kiwi morphological analyzer)

Data corrections and coverage

Version 0.1.4 corrects defects that releases 0.7.0 to 0.8.1 of the kna project (https://github.com/kyusik-yang/kna) found in the underlying Open Assembly records, among them the seniority and committees of legislators, the results of vetoed bills, the co-sponsorship records cut at 100 names per bill and the votes the API omits. It also extends the 22nd assembly to 2026-09-23 and the asset declarations to 2025, from kna 0.8.1. See the package NEWS for details.

Tutorials

Nine Korean-language tutorials covering tidyverse, visualization, regression, panel data, text analysis, network analysis, roll call analysis, bill success, and speech patterns. Use list_tutorials to see all tutorials, and open_tutorial to copy them to your working directory.

See also

Useful links:

• https://kyusik-yang.github.io/assemblykor/

• https://github.com/kyusik-yang/assemblykor

• Report bugs at https://github.com/kyusik-yang/assemblykor/issues

Author

Maintainer: Kyusik Yang kyusik.yang@nyu.edu