“The Korea Deposit Insurance Corporation (KDIC) and the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) are the heart of Korea’s financial stability. And yet the government says it wants to move that heart away from the center of the financial markets. If you take out the heart and put it somewhere else, can you really expect the body to keep functioning normally?” The voice of Kim Young-heon, head of the KDIC labor union, rang out under the sweltering sun outside Cheong Wa Dae in Seoul, Monday. “Heart transplant surgery is among the most delicate procedures, where even a single mistake can be fatal. Keep in mind that our financial system has no anesthesia and no recovery room.” More than 40 union members from the KDIC and FSS waved bright red placards as Kim continued his speech at a rare joint press conference protesting a government plan to relocate the institutions to Sejong, Korea’s administrative capital. The relocation drive is part of the Lee Jae Myung administration’s push to move government agencies out of the Seoul area, thus easing the heavy concentration around the capital