여야, 오늘 저녁 예산안 처리..6년만에 법정 시한 지켜지나<br /><br />At the National Assembly, South Korean lawmakers are expected to vote this evening on next year's government budget,... which is worth some 558 trillion won, or around half a trillion U.S. dollars,... the biggest budget in Korean history.<br />The big question is whether it will go through by the legal deadline, which is today.<br />If so, it would be the first time for that to happen in six years.<br />In negotiating the final bill on Tuesday, lawmakers added another 2-point-2 trillion won,... which means that for the first time in 11 years,... the final budget is bigger than what the government first proposed.<br />The extra money is for a third round of COVID-19 relief funds and the purchase of vaccines.<br />
