From: kim_sh@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Sung Hyun Kim)
Subject: Re: To Sung Hyun Kim (From "DJ for President")
Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 19:53:18 GMT

Well..this discussion might lose its timeliness soon, but well..

In article <1992Dec18.105741.18921@sbcs.sunysb.edu> swkim@csws17.ic.sunysb.edu () writes:
>In article <1992Dec17.201416.12189@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
>kim_sh@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Sung Hyun Kim) writes:
> [ my remark deleted ]
>
>*** Here are the reasons why we don't have to meet them personally :
>
>(1) Mess media let the people know their everything.  YS and DJ were exposed
>    for last 30 years.  Their history, idea, character, habit... They've
>    been totally naked in the spotlight.  

Yeah, right..mEss media.. I totally agree with your phrasing (on purpose or not). Wasn't it the mass media that gave people the wrong bias about DJ? 
What I wanted to know was ; how could you extract the purest and clearest
information from mass media? 
Yes, politicians have been naked in the spotlight, and THEY know it. That's
enough incentive for them to manipulate their acts.
(Gee, am I really concerned about "incentive"!!! You know, I am studying
game theory, you will understand if you know what it is.)

>
>*** Of course I'm not perfect. However, I can make sure I'm always trying to 
>    escape from kinds of prejudice.  So I am always efforting in order to
>    face various informations.  
>    But, in this election, I have a little partial view.  These are :
>      (1) I prefer the politician who understand economics well.
>      (2) I prefer the person who give the reasonable issues for me.
>    If there is bias on my mind, here it is.

If I must give my partial view (which I didn't realize till now),
 (1) I prefer a politician who can distinguish the role of politician from
     that of economist.  [BTW, that doesn't mean I prefer YS]
 (2) I prefer a person with a long run perspective (if such person ever
     exists).  All right , both DJ and YS spent a lot of years doing politics,
     but that doesn't mean they have long run perspectives. Their sole goal
     may have been only the presidency or power or whatever you call, but once
     they get elected, they have only five years..

>
>>It DOES look pretty honest. I think DJ should make similar remarks, too.
>>They are not certainly economy experts. And I understand how you got to the
>
>*** DJ is THE economy experts.  It is one of DJ's strongest good point. It
>    is officially authorized by the most people EXCEPT FOR YOU!

All right, you win.  Who decides "officially"?  You bought magazines' words?
or you bought DJ supporters' words? or what?
I know DJ wrote a book on economy (hell, my school library has it, too. :) ).
And I understand what you tried to say when you put "THE". 
But I guess that "THE" attitude is what drives most people from DJ.
If DJ succeeded in changing the image (no matter what he will do aftermath),
we will see the result.
If not, I'm pretty sure we will see him again in 1997.
So I have only hope starting from 2002 right now.

> [About US election - Clinton vs. Bush]

By the way, I don't know if Clinton really had good understanding of economy,
but it is pretty clear that he had good economic plans which implies that he
had good economics staffs. You know, almost all macroeconomists in US supported
Clinton's plan. (and Clinton has proper economics education,..yeah, so does
Bush, I guess. They come from same school.)
Was there a common agreement among Korean economists about DJ's plan? Was
there a plan at all? (I am asking. Not questioning.). 

> 
>It's Hot discussion!
>
Yes. And I would like to thank you for invoking this thread. Note that I am
not a YS supporter.  I'm just frustrated about current Korean politics.
Neither YS nor DJ gives good promising future for me.
Anyway, by now somebody must have been elected..  Now is the time to start
criticizing new president of Korea. If he does anything wrong, we should not
tolerate. If he does something pretty good, we should show our appreciation
for that. This applies to both YS and DJ..whoever gets elected.


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 Sung Hyun Kim    kim_sh@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu // kim_sh@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu
 
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