President Moon appears to be doubling down on his policies:
President Moon Jae-in (L) walks into a Cheong Wa Dae meeting room, along with Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon (R) and Rep. Lee Hae-chan, head of the ruling Democratic Party of Korea, on Sept. 1, 2018. (Yonhap)
President Moon Jae-in called Saturday for an unswerving reform drive despite a falling approval rating and controversies over his economic policy.
He was speaking at an unprecedented gathering of all ruling party lawmakers, Cabinet members and presidential officials.
It came two days after Moon’s first Cabinet shake-up to replace five ministers, including the defense chief and the top education policymaker.
Late last month, the Democratic Party of Korea picked Rep. Lee Hae-chan, a seven-term lawmaker, as its new leader.
“The task of the times that we have to achieve together is clear,” Moon said at the meeting held at his office Cheong Wa Dae.
It’s to create a fair and just country through strong and constant reform measures, widely dubbed the “liquidation of past malpractices.” [Yonhap]
I wonder which malpractices is he referring to? Is the founding of the Republic of Korea one of the malpractices? It may be considering how President Moon has denied that the ROK was not founded in 1948.
He pointed out that South Korea is at a time of a “grand shift.”
He stressed the need for addressing the gap between the haves and have-nots via an appropriate distribution policy and promoting the co-prosperity between South and North Korea on the basis of denuclearization and a peace regime.
What is an appropriate distribution policy? The only distribution I have been hearing about is the ROK money expected to be redistributed to Kim Jong-un. Also notice the term “peace regime” being used by Moon. That is the preferred term now by ROK leftists to disguise their real intention of forming a confederation with North Korea.
To that end, the president said, Cheong Wa Dae, the ruling party and the government should make concerted efforts.
Moon, in particular, cited negative side effects from South Korea’s growth-oriented approach in the past, such as widening income disparity and misconducts by some vested powers.
Inter-Korean relations were once broken and the cloud of war was cast over Korea, he said. [Yonhap]
President Moon does not like South Korea’s growth oriented economy that has brought remarkable affluence to South Korea in an incredibly short time? Also by vested powers is President Moon referring to the United States?
Korean voters are going to get everything they voted for. Without lube.
AppeasingNorthKorea
6 years ago
You seem to be ignorant of what their new historical views of the Korean economy, they are pushing for.
They reject that South Korea’s economy became affluent during the 1960’s to 1980’s. They view this era as a dictatorial military regime era where the rich got richer and the poor got poorer. They strongly and totally reject the historical view of Park Chung Hee’s economic transformation of South Korea. In fact, the new leftist administration has taken all those viewpoints out of the school history text books. They were able to silently do this because they control the media and all the civic activists (who would have made a big stink if the Conservatives tried to do the same thing). Their own version of the “truth” is entirely different from what the Koreans and the world use to understood as.
AppeasingNorthKorea
6 years ago
They are shooting for ‘equality’ as in, everyone is equally poor. As long as everyone is equal (and poor), then that’s what they want. In that sense (other than their romantic flirtations with North Korea and China), they are classic Socialists.
AppeasingNorthKorea
6 years ago
When they say “liquidation of past malpractices” or (적페청산 in Korean), it means ‘purging’. South Korea has been undergoing a mass purging of officials and administrations that the new administration sees as a problem or a future problem. They got the mandate to do this because the Korean people themselves gave them that power and turned a blind eye, thinking that this is what’s needed and that what the Korean left is doing is righteous.
setnaffa
6 years ago
Appeasing, lying don’t make it so. South Korea voted to end their democracy. It’s happening now. They made their bed. It’s time for the rest of us to mourn what was and hope they wake up after they realize slavery isn’t fun.
setnaffa
6 years ago
BTW, Robert Mugabe, the butcher only recently removed from power in Zimbabwe, was trained in economic in Pyongyang. Part of his administration’s plan included starving seven million people.
He was successful.
setnaffa
6 years ago
*economic theory
Flyingsword
6 years ago
Commie moon showing his true colors. Unfortunate that a minority, 41.8%, of voters were able to get this commie stooge into office. Time for the majority to correct this or lose the Republic of Korea.
TF? They all call each other in the morning and says “Yo it’d be sweet if we all wore the same outift but in different colors!” 😕
ChickenHead
6 years ago
Smokes, it is an intermediate fashion.
Suit and tie
Suit and no tie, shirt unbuttoned
Suit with no tie, shirt buttoned up
Suit with jacket that buttons all the way up, unbuttoned
Suit with jacket that buttons all the way up, buttoned
And South Korean fashion reunifies under North Korean terms.
setnaffa
6 years ago
I’m waiting to see all the South Korean men rockin’ that KJU haircut…
Korean voters are going to get everything they voted for. Without lube.
You seem to be ignorant of what their new historical views of the Korean economy, they are pushing for.
They reject that South Korea’s economy became affluent during the 1960’s to 1980’s. They view this era as a dictatorial military regime era where the rich got richer and the poor got poorer. They strongly and totally reject the historical view of Park Chung Hee’s economic transformation of South Korea. In fact, the new leftist administration has taken all those viewpoints out of the school history text books. They were able to silently do this because they control the media and all the civic activists (who would have made a big stink if the Conservatives tried to do the same thing). Their own version of the “truth” is entirely different from what the Koreans and the world use to understood as.
They are shooting for ‘equality’ as in, everyone is equally poor. As long as everyone is equal (and poor), then that’s what they want. In that sense (other than their romantic flirtations with North Korea and China), they are classic Socialists.
When they say “liquidation of past malpractices” or (적페청산 in Korean), it means ‘purging’. South Korea has been undergoing a mass purging of officials and administrations that the new administration sees as a problem or a future problem. They got the mandate to do this because the Korean people themselves gave them that power and turned a blind eye, thinking that this is what’s needed and that what the Korean left is doing is righteous.
Appeasing, lying don’t make it so. South Korea voted to end their democracy. It’s happening now. They made their bed. It’s time for the rest of us to mourn what was and hope they wake up after they realize slavery isn’t fun.
BTW, Robert Mugabe, the butcher only recently removed from power in Zimbabwe, was trained in economic in Pyongyang. Part of his administration’s plan included starving seven million people.
He was successful.
*economic theory
Commie moon showing his true colors. Unfortunate that a minority, 41.8%, of voters were able to get this commie stooge into office. Time for the majority to correct this or lose the Republic of Korea.
TF? They all call each other in the morning and says “Yo it’d be sweet if we all wore the same outift but in different colors!” 😕
Smokes, it is an intermediate fashion.
Suit and tie
Suit and no tie, shirt unbuttoned
Suit with no tie, shirt buttoned up
Suit with jacket that buttons all the way up, unbuttoned
Suit with jacket that buttons all the way up, buttoned
And South Korean fashion reunifies under North Korean terms.
I’m waiting to see all the South Korean men rockin’ that KJU haircut…