From: mj03@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (MINHO JO)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.korean
Subject: Re: DJ for President
Date: 16 Dec 92 02:25:34 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <1992Dec15.153344.9618@udel.edu>, shin@krusty.ee.udel.edu (Jeong-Gyun
 Shin) writes:
>In article <1992Dec15.015120.78167@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> mj03@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (M
INHO JO) writes:
>>I entially agree with you.   Our country needs a smart president.
>>Our country now lies in the important and transient step in terms
>>of economic and political situation.  If we fail to move toward
>>one of developed countries,  our country might be another Brazil,
>>Argentina, and Greece.
>> ...
>
>Yeah, sure, smart/dumb president will guide the country into prosperity/
>bankrupcy.  Except I don't see any merit on comparison with countries like
>Argentina or Brazil, each of which are *many* times larger than Korea,
>obviously each of which with completely different people, history, tradition,
>culture, etc than Korea.  Greece??
>
>In case of Brazil, failure of Brazil to gear up toward export oriented
>economy as S.Korea in the magnitude of having significant impact on general
>population (as it happened in S.Korea) is not necessaryly due to failure of
>its political/economical leadership.  As an indication, in Brazil, there are
>several regions of comparable territorial dimension of South Korea with per
>person gross income level in the order of (sorry don't know hard numbers)
>what S.Korea has in the 1990's, and that was several years ago.  So, it seems
>that smaller territorial dimension of S.Korea has something to do with it
>even though it's not entire story (for example, population, numberwise).
>Such simplistic comparison is somewhat offensive at the least to any
>Brazilian or Argentinian who might be reading this newsgroup.

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In a sense,  your claims may be right.  Yes,  they have different facts in
population, territory, culture, and so on,  from our country.
Let's think of successful countries which have different facts from us.
For instance,  Spain came to be greatly successful in econoy and politics
after the great leader, Carlos became leader of Spain right after
the notorious dictator, Franco died.  Spain's population and territory
are somewhat similar to us.  Probably,  Spain has more difficulties than
us because they have been suffering from domestic indedpendence
strugglings. However,  since they got the smart leader,  they could
be successful.  Under the tyrant, Franco,  Spain was exactly the same
as us.

There are no countires in the world whcih have the same facts as
mentioned above.  However,  they are moving forward a single goal
with smart or dumb leaders.  Definitly, success depends on their
leaders and people's efforts.

There are many examples to justify my claim.  But, sorry I can not
come across right now.


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>
>>our economy and international relations are far behind other
>>countries like Singapore, China, etc.
>
>Singapore doesn't count; I mean, roughly speaking, it's like taking Seoul
>(for that matter, any world size mega city) isolated.  China is entirely
>another story.
>
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I forgot to tell about that it is an assumption:  Unless we had a smart
leader,  that would happen, i.e. we would be far behind other rivalries.

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             - Minho Jo,  Lehigh University -
Newsgroups: soc.culture.korean