The reserve is money that is prearranged to cover unpredictable out-of-budget spending, and the government insisted that 4.8 trillion won was needed, a 14% increase from this year, but the opposition party passed a proposal that reduced the amount by 2.4 trillion won.
The opposition party argued that next year's plan was excessive considering that 3.3 trillion won out of the 4.6 trillion won reserve was not spent last year, but the people's power left without participating in the vote in protest of the cuts.
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