President Park Geun-hye met with ruling party leaders Monday to seek their support for the parliamentary endorsement of a set of bills.
  

Kim Moo-sung, chairman of the ruling Saenuri Party, and Won Yoo-cheol, the party's floor leader, gathered at Cheong Wa Dae, South Korea's presidential office, for the first time since Oct. 22.
  

The meeting underscores Park's latest push to get the National Assembly to pass a set of bills designed to revitalize South Korea's economy, reform the labor sector and protect the country from possible terror attacks.
  

The National Assembly's plenary session is set to finish Wednesday, while rival parties have failed to narrow their differences on several contentious issues.
  

The meeting is meant to convey to the ruling party leaders the president's wish that "the National Assembly is making last-ditch efforts to meet the people's expectations," Kim Sung-woo, chief presidential press secretary, told reporters before the meeting.
  

Kim also voiced concerns that the bills could be scrapped unless they are passed in the current parliamentary session.
 
 
There is widespread speculation that the bills could go nowhere next year, when the current parliamentary term is set to end and South Koreans go to the polls to elect new lawmakers in April.
  

The ruling party commands a parliamentary majority with 157 seats, while the main opposition party, the New Politics Alliance for Democracy, has 127 seats.
  

Labor, management and the government produced a landmark deal three months ago to ease labor restrictions. The deal would allow companies to dismiss workers who are either negligent or underperforming.
  

Anti-terrorism bills have gained fresh momentum in South Korea following the deadly attacks in Paris that killed 130 people.
  

In November, the ruling and opposition parties agreed to begin discussions for the swift passage of anti-terrorism bills.
  

The main opposition party is concerned that the bills could give more authority to the National Intelligence Service, South Korea's top spy agency.
  

Park has said that South Korea is not a safe zone clear of possible terrorism, citing the recent arrest of an Indonesian citizen on a forged passport who is suspected of associating with a terrorist group affiliated with al-Qaida. (Yonhap)