Lee raises Daejeon-South Chungcheong Province merger ahead of local election

President Lee Jae Myung on Thursday raised the possibility of merging Daejeon and South Chungcheong Province into a single administrative division before next year's local election in a meeting with ruling Democratic Party lawmakers representing constituencies in the region. Lee said that such a merger could help solve wider issues, and the newly merged division should elect its first leader in the upcoming June local election, Lee told the 14 Democratic Party lawmakers of the region. He added t