The National Assembly Research Service (headed by Dr. Koh Hyun-wook) which was launched as a comprehensive research organization to support members' parliamentary activities, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Judicial Policy Research Institute (headed by President Choi Song-hwa) and Constitutional Research Institute (headed by President Kim Moon-hyun) on July 11, 2014.

The MOU will allow all three organizations an exchange of publications, personnel, hosting of joint research and academic activities and other cooperative programs. As all three parties are research arms of the National Assembly, the Court and the Constitutional Court of Korea, respectively, they have long recognized that cooperation in legislative and judicial research studies is inevitable. Against this backdrop, on May 12 the three parties jointly hosted a symposium on Unification and Law-Present and Future, which served as a stepping stone toward deepening their ties.

So far, NARS has signed MOUs with a number of overseas parliamentary research services, including the National Diet Library of Japan, the Institute for Monitoring of Current Legislation of Uzbekistan, and Islamic Parliament of Iran Research Center of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Also it has inked MOUs with major universities such as Seoul National University.

NARS expects this MOU will strengthen understanding of constitutional institutions, further bolster cooperative ties among all three institutions, and at the same time reinforce its role as a parliamentary support agency.