The future of Korea 6

<div>Now I am riding an express bus gliding smoothely along the highway</div><div>built in the days of President Chung-hee Park's rule decades ago.</div><div><style> body { background-image:url( http://cfile247.uf.daum.net/image/24648849525BF55C31F454); background-attachment: fixed; background-repeat: repeat;background-position: bottom left; } table { background-color: transparent; } td { background-color: transparent; } </style> </div><div>These days more and more Koreans, especially those slanted to leftist </div><div>ideology, denounce him as a brutal dictator who usurped human rights, </div><div>oppressed people and ignored the principles of democracy, doubting </div><div>his economic achievement, and underestimating his role in building up </div><div>Korea into what it is today.</div><div> </div><div>However, when I think of Mr. Marcos, of the same bilogical age as </div><div>President Park and president of Philippine at the same period, who </div><div>devastated his country's economy so much with his corrupted rule, </div><div>while President Park accomplished an economic wonder called </div><div>"The Miracle of Han River' with his clean hands, I cannot but admit</div><div>to his greatness as president of Korea for 18 years.</div><div> </div><div>It is hard to understand the leftists who speak ill of President Park,</div><div>just blaming his deed during Japanese colonial days, ignoring his </div><div>devoted contribution to Korean economy.</div><div> </div><div>They seem to be forgetful of the fact that, without him, their parents</div><div>would not have enjoyed the economic prosperity and they themselves </div><div>would not have been able to demand democracy raising their feasts </div><div>on the street backed by the financial security their parents provided.</div><div> </div><div>What decides the greatness of a leader?</div><div>Let's see Mongol as an example, one of the most powerful countries, </div><div>which had once conquered half the world in its heyday but now has</div><div>become a very small country.</div><div> </div><div>Mongol was a powerful country when it had a leader called Temujin </div><div>later called Jingisukan, who united many warrng tribes into one strong </div><div>entity conquering other nations.</div><div> </div><div>Sejong the Great also united his warring subjects into one entity</div><div>working for people with his wisdom and insight.</div><div> </div><div>General Sunshin Lee also united people and his soldiers and won</div><div>the battle in which odds were heavily against him.</div><div> </div><div>A leader who unites people is a great leaser and a leader who divides </div><div>people is a bad leader, in which sense our incumbent president cannot </div><div>be called a great leader because he constantly divides Koreans seized</div><div>by his anachronistic leftist socialistic ideologoy ignoring the fact that</div><div>Koreans have enjoyed economic prosperity greater than any other </div><div>country in the world thanks to the capitalistic free market economy. </div><div> </div><div>He does not appreciate the contribition of Mr. Seung-man Lee, the </div><div>founding president nor President Chung-hee Park who made Korea </div><div>what it is today.</div><div> </div><div>His accomplishement was undeniably great when he is comparee with</div><div>President Marcos of Philippines who devasted his country economically.</div><div> </div><div>Our imcumbent president idolizes Mr. Young-bok Shin who served 25</div><div>years' sentence for his crime of plotting a violent socialistic revolution.</div><div> </div><div>What will become of Korea now that an extreme leftist president wields</div><div>his omnipotent presidential power?</div><div> </div><div>Rich people living in the opulent part of Seoul are now exiting Korea </div><div>and even big businesses, finding it impossible to continue to do business </div><div>in Korea are moving to other countries.</div><div> </div><div>He is now happy driving Korea to socialism that he has been dreaming of</div><div>since his youth while many Koreans are unhappy about the drastic change</div><div>he brings to Korean politics. </div><div> </div><div>He mobilizes around him his sympathizers like Mr. Kuk Cho to push ahead </div><div>with socialistic reform by appointing him to law minister despite his endless </div><div>record of having trampled ehtics, morality and even the rules of behavior </div><div>generally accepted in Korean society, let alone the fact that he had served </div><div>6 months in jail for his crime of plotting violent socialistic revolution in 1995.<div><div> </div><div>We Koreans must unite to stand up against his long-cherished dream of</div><div>bringing the country to socialism and depriving us of the capitalistic free</div><div>market economy that has materialized today's Korean economic prosperity.</div><div> </div><div>When he first showed up as the strongest candiate for president in 2017,</div><div>I was shocked at the magnitude of his popularity and wondered what had </div><div>made so many Korens take a left turn in their political stance despite the</div><div>fact that they must have seen the miserable results of enforcing leftist</div><div>economic policy in countries like Greece, Argentina and Venezuela.</div><div> </div><div>Even before his inauguration, I thought that his new economic policy called</div><div>'income-led growht policy', so much slanted to socialism, would bring disaster</div><div>to Korean economy, which has been in fact proven undermining the viability of </div><div>Korean economy for 2 years since his coming to power.</div><div> </div><div>The problem is that he sticks to his leftist policy despite so many negative </div><div>effects on Korean economy without the slightest attempt at revising it that</div><div>there is no hope of reviving the economy.</div><div> </div><div>The only possible way is regime change through election but it won't be easy</div><div>either because majority of Koreans still support him falling for his freewheeling</div><div>pork-barrel policy with their eyes closed to the destructive and harmful effects</div><div>of his leftist economic policy.</div><div> </div><div> </div> </div></div>