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Captain Corea



Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 3:45 am    Post subject: LMB's Policy Promises Reply with quote

As always, you have to take election promises as what they are... election promises.

But here they are:

http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/NEWKHSITE/data/html_dir/2007/12/20/200712200036.asp

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North Korea

- Pledges strategic policy that fosters a genuine opening of North Korea, and a proactive policy to bring an enduring change rather than unprincipled and unilateral appeasement.

- Preconditions the cooperation with North Korea`s complete nuclear dismantlement.

- Bases North Korean policies on two foundations: to help resolve the perennial problem of hunger; and support for basic human rights.

- Promises to raise North Korea`s per capita income to $3,000 over the next 10 years with cooperation from the United States, Japan, China and Russia and the larger international community.

- Pledges to create a 9-million-pyeong (30 million square meter) cooperation complex called "Nadeul Island" in the estuary of the Han River to offer business opportunities for South Korean companies, ease military tension and attract foreign investment.

- Calls engagement policy a failure that has left the nation`s security threatened.

Foreign affairs

- Pledges to revamp and strengthen the Korean-American alliance based on shared values and mutual interests. Defines the Korea-U.S. alliance as the key pillar of Korea`s security and prosperity.

- Calls for a revitalization of the alliance and forging a new strategic master plan for the peninsula and Asia.

- Calls for an expansion of relationships with regional states such as Japan, China, Russia and India.

- Pledges close cooperation with ASEAN, Australia and New Zealand along with cultivation of new relations with Central Asian nations.

- Pledges to take on rightful international responsibilities to help alleviate global problems including environment, human rights, extreme poverty, epidemics and related human security threats.

- Calls for expansion of Korea`s overseas development assistance contributions and aid.

- Promises to secure long-term energy supplies through an international energy cooperative belt.

- Merge cultural products with IT skills to create a new cultural wave across the world to alleviate cultural gaps between the East and the West, and the North and the South.

Defense

- Accelerate an establishment of network-centric warfare capability through introduction of high-tech weapons and equipment.

- Increase defense research and development costs to 10 percent of the annual defense budget from the current 4.7 percent.

- Outsource non-combat tasks to put more resources into building combat capability.

- Upgrade the Korea-U.S. military alliance and improve readiness for the planned transition of wartime operational control.

- Pursue repatriation of South Korean soldiers held in North Korea.

Economy

- Promises 7 percent economic growth, $40,000 per capita income and a jump to the seventh largest global economy under his so-called "747 pledge"

- Stimulate company investment by adopting procorporate policies, such as deregulation and tax cuts

- Pledges of 12.6 trillion won in tax cuts a key part of the campaign, including reducing the maximum corporate tax to 20 percent, from the current 25 percent

- Calls for relaxing regulations on the country`s family-owned chaebol, including ownership rules for financial institutions and restrictions on cross-affiliate investments

- Compiling a fund of 20 to 33 trillion won to support small and medium-size firms by privatizing some public enterprises - such as the Korea Development Bank

- Pledges to relax restrictions on the redevelopment of old apartments in the Seoul`s Gangnam area

- Reduce comprehensive real-estate taxes on expensive land and housing and capital gains taxes for single-home owners

- Vows to build 3,100 kilometers of cross-country canals that would link South Korea to North Korea. He claims that the so-called Pan-Korea Grand Waterway would not only relieve the nation`s heavy logistics costs, but also generate industrial ripple effects such as job creation, water purification and the development of the tourism and leisure industry.

- Vows to build an international science and business city that combines natural science with business resources

- Pledges to slim down the government and to privatize and reform public enterprises

Welfare

- Plans to take full responsibility for the cost of nurturing and educating children from birth until they reach age 5 and exempt any vaccination and medical insurance fees during that period.

- Pledges to send 20,000 young adults abroad every year to foreign businesses as interns or to developing countries as volunteers, with a goal of dispatching 100,000 during his envisioned five-year term.

- Presents a set of plans for the elderly: issuing free medical check-ups for those with serious illnesses and drawing up a comprehensive plan to deal with three major troubles of older people, which are illness, employment and loneliness.

Labor relations

- Expects to create 600,000 more jobs annually, with a stable economic growth rate of an average of 7 percent per year.

- Plans to introduce a medical care plan for low-income disabled citizens, for a certain period, to help them adapt to the labor market.

- Pledges to narrow down the channels for dialogue between labor and management - from national-level to regional-level.

- To promote enhanced communication methods that can improve labor-management relations.

Gender equality

- Promises to develop support systems for women, including providing customized job training.

- Plans to grant incentives to enterprises led by women when giving government support funds to businesses and offer a greater number of workplaces for women.

Education

- Proposes a three-phase process to gradually give full autonomy to universities in picking their own students and to minimize government intervention.

- Plans to reduce the number of subjects for the college entrance exam.

- Pledged an extra 300 specialized high schools - 150 public boarding schools; 100 private schools independent from government control; and 50 professional schools.

- Focuses on fostering internationally competitive talent by revamping the country`s egalitarian education system.

- Pledged to train at least 3,000 new English teachers who will give lessons only in English.
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VanIslander



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 4:26 am    Post subject: Re: LMB's Policy Promises Reply with quote

Captain Corea wrote:
Pledges to send 20,000 young adults abroad every year to foreign businesses as interns or to developing countries as volunteers, with a goal of dispatching 100,000 during his envisioned five-year term.

Interesting!

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Plans to reduce the number of subjects for the college entrance exam.

Won't axe English it seems, and with less other subjects to study, English will likely become more important.

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Pledged an extra 300 specialized high schools - 150 public boarding schools; 100 private schools independent from government control; and 50 professional schools.

- Focuses on fostering internationally competitive talent by revamping the country`s egalitarian education system.

- Pledged to train at least 3,000 new English teachers who will give lessons only in English.

These might affect us.
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The_Eyeball_Kid



Joined: 20 Jun 2007

PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 4:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Slightly off-topic, but what the hell is up with the apostrophe character that the Times uses?
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Ilsanman



Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Bucheon, Korea

PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 4:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

No promises to stamp out corruption? I guess people don't pee in their own backyard.

It will be an interesting ride, I am sure of that!!
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Captain Corea



Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 4:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The_Eyeball_Kid wrote:
Slightly off-topic, but what the hell is up with the apostrophe character that the Times uses?


hahaha, just noticed that.

Odd.
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The_Eyeball_Kid



Joined: 20 Jun 2007

PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 5:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Captain Corea wrote:
The_Eyeball_Kid wrote:
Slightly off-topic, but what the hell is up with the apostrophe character that the Times uses?


hahaha, just noticed that.

Odd.


It happens whenever they use inverted commas too. They use two of those strange not-apostrophes instead of opening inverted commas, but use proper closing inverted commas. What the hell kind of messed up publishing system are they using?
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SHANE02



Joined: 04 Jun 2003

PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 6:38 am    Post subject: Re: LMB's Policy Promises Reply with quote

Captain Corea wrote:


100 private schools independent from government control;
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I have No doubt a few old friends of the new president are already rubbing their hands together in glee at this. It's a licence to print money.
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RACETRAITOR



Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea

PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 7:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Everyone was saying he was going to be tough on North Korea. It sounds like he's just going to turn it into another moneymaking venture. What's he going to do differently, aside from use slightly different words to describe the same thing?

Also, has he not given up on the canal thing yet? That guy has canals on the brain.
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CentralCali



Joined: 17 May 2007

PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 10:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The_Eyeball_Kid wrote:
Captain Corea wrote:
The_Eyeball_Kid wrote:
Slightly off-topic, but what the hell is up with the apostrophe character that the Times uses?


hahaha, just noticed that.

Odd.


It happens whenever they use inverted commas too. They use two of those strange not-apostrophes instead of opening inverted commas, but use proper closing inverted commas. What the hell kind of messed up publishing system are they using?


Sometimes that happens when your browswer doesn't reset to the encoding system the site's publisher is using. Try resetting it to Korean encoding and see what happens. That doesn't always work, but it's worth a shot.
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Hollywoodaction



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 10:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

"- Promises to raise North Korea`s per capita income to $3,000 over the next 10 years with cooperation from the United States, Japan, China and Russia and the larger international community."

That must be a ten-fold increase. Unfortunately, most of that money will end up in the pockets of the North Korean government. Basically, he wants foreigners to pay for the development of North Korea so that he doesn't have to increase taxes.
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The_Eyeball_Kid



Joined: 20 Jun 2007

PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 12:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

CentralCali wrote:
The_Eyeball_Kid wrote:
Captain Corea wrote:
The_Eyeball_Kid wrote:
Slightly off-topic, but what the hell is up with the apostrophe character that the Times uses?


hahaha, just noticed that.

Odd.


It happens whenever they use inverted commas too. They use two of those strange not-apostrophes instead of opening inverted commas, but use proper closing inverted commas. What the hell kind of messed up publishing system are they using?


Sometimes that happens when your browswer doesn't reset to the encoding system the site's publisher is using. Try resetting it to Korean encoding and see what happens. That doesn't always work, but it's worth a shot.


That won't do it, I don't think. It's not that it's not properly encoded, it's down to the fact that they've used a strange character instead of both the apostrophe and the opening inverted commas.
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Ya-ta Boy



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 12:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Also, has he not given up on the canal thing yet? That guy has canals on the brain.


When I said that to one of my friends, he said, "What do you expect from the former head of Hyundai CONSTRUCTION?" I conceded my friend's point.

CARROT
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Promises to raise North Korea`s per capita income to $3,000 over the next 10 years with cooperation from the United States, Japan, China and Russia and the larger international community.


STICK
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Preconditions the cooperation with North Korea`s complete nuclear dismantlement.

- Bases North Korean policies on two foundations: to help resolve the perennial problem of hunger; and support for basic human rights.


Looks like a fairly reasonable approach to me.

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Focuses on fostering internationally competitive talent by revamping the country`s egalitarian education system.


Could that spell the end of 40 students in an English conversation class Question Question

Like the OP said, these are just campaign promises and we have to wait to see how it all plays out, but I think we have reason to be optimistic.
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RACETRAITOR



Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea

PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 6:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ya-ta Boy wrote:

CARROT
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Promises to raise North Korea`s per capita income to $3,000 over the next 10 years with cooperation from the United States, Japan, China and Russia and the larger international community.


STICK
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Preconditions the cooperation with North Korea`s complete nuclear dismantlement.

- Bases North Korean policies on two foundations: to help resolve the perennial problem of hunger; and support for basic human rights.


Looks like a fairly reasonable approach to me.


I'd need to know how it's different from the current policy.
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Zolt



Joined: 18 May 2006

PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 6:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Now let's see which ones of these pledges he'll actually keep.

I have no worries about the chaebol friendly tax cuts and stuff though.
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RACETRAITOR



Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea

PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 6:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Zolt wrote:
Now let's see which ones of these pledges he'll actually keep.

I have no worries about the chaebol friendly tax cuts and stuff though.


No, because we can trust the ultra-rich and untouchable not to scam us, drive companies to bankruptcy for a profit, rig elections, or hire goons to beat up our bouncers.
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