City Council Member of Incheon.

Unlike council members in other cities who are often criticized for being useless and redundant, Incheon’s city council members are on a different level.

This is because Incheon, being such a massive city, has significant autonomy and its own legislative authority, naturally elevating the status of its city council members.

To simplify, using a pre-possession South Korean comparison:

• Incheon Mayor = President
• District Mayors = Mayors of individual cities
• Incheon City Council Members = National Assembly Members

With that in mind, the young woman in front of me, at least on the …