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 five built-in datasets covering legislator metadata, bills, asset declarations, policy seminars, and committee speeches.

Built-in datasets

• legislators: 947 MP records (20th-22nd assemblies)

• bills: 60,925 legislative bills

• wealth: 2,928 legislator-year asset declarations

• seminars: 5,962 legislator-year seminar records

• speeches: 15,843 speech records (22nd, Science & ICT Committee)

• votes: 7,997 plenary vote tallies (20th-22nd assemblies)

• roll_calls: 368,210 member-level roll call votes (22nd assembly)

Download functions

• get_bill_texts: 60,925 bill propose-reason texts

• get_proposers: 769,773 co-sponsorship records

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