Hearing from the ‘9th popularly elected’ Seoul district mayor Kim Hyun-ki, mayor of Gangnam-gu in Seoul (pictured), bowed his head to the Seoul Metropolitan Government offices, directors, and managers who attended the meeting prior to the last special committee on budget and settlement of the Seoul Metropolitan Council last month. It was my last greeting as a city council member at the time, and a request to help Gangnam-gu as a district mayor in the future. “For the development of Gangnam-gu, I would personally go to Seoul City Hall and ask the team and manager in charge to help me...