If you are wondering why the Korean lawmakers are able to continuously get away with violence, well here is your reason:

But the vast majority of lawmakers indicted were handed fines and only a handful of secretariats and party officials received jail sentences.

Unlike Korea’s election law that invalidates a lawmaker’s assembly seats when he is convicted of receiving either a fine of more than 1 million won ($863) or a jail term, lawmakers convicted of criminal charges lose their seats only when they receive jail terms. Some people thought prosecutors went light on the lawmakers.

For instance, when the spray settled at the Dec. 18 incident, the governing party asked the prosecutors to investigate two opposition party lawmakers – DP’s Moon Hak-jin and DLP’s Lee Jung-hee – for using force to interrupt the meeting.

Moon was indicted for using a sledgehammer in his failed attempt to break in. On Nov. 4, a local court slapped Moon with a 3 million won fine. They sought a 1 million won fine against Lee for allegedly destroying lawmaker nameplates. A prosecutor who spoke on condition of anonymity explained DP’s Moon was fined because there was no concrete evidence that he destroyed the door leading to the committee room. “After examining video and other evidence we could only prove that he had destroyed a door leading to secretariat room of foreign affairs and trade committee,” the prosecutor said. “DLP’s Lee was also sentenced lightly taking into account the degree of damage caused by her wasn’t that serious.”

National Assembly Secretary General Park Kye-dong said he was deeply disappointed by the court’s decision. “The recent series of skirmishes at National Assembly brought international shame and it greatly disappointed the public that law-enforcement authorities made a decision that falls short of what the public wanted. The public wanted to end violence in the national assembly,” Park said.  [Joong Ang Ilbo]

As long as these clowns are allowed to continue to get away with this violence with only small fines to show for it, it will continue.  By the way if I was a Korean lawmaker this is who my aid would be.