80% of Koreans Believe Improving the Economy is More Important than North Korea Reunification
The Moon administration is not going to like this news:
Eight out of ten South Koreans think economic issues are more important than unification with North Korea, according to a new government survey.
KBS World Radio
The Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs released on Friday the results of their survey of three-thousand-873 South Korean adults, which indicates that 77-point-one percent of respondents would choose the economy over unification if only one of the two problems could be solved.
In the survey, 55-point-nine percent agreed with the proposition that South Korea and North Korea don’t necessarily have to form a unified country.
A full 53-point-two percent answered negatively when asked if they were willing to partially give up their quality of life for unification with North Korea.
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Almost two decades ago, I was taking an international politics class with one South Korean student in the class. The instructor asked the student what she thought about reunification. The student replied, “It will never happen”, and then she explained her answer in detail. I venture her answer is the same today.