From: kimjimin@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.korean
Subject: Re: A sad story from Korea.
Date: 12 Dec 92 11:11:17 -0500
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Organization: Georgetown University

In article <1992Dec8.051907.2999@tc.cornell.edu>, jfe@alchemy.tn.cornell.edu (Brian Chung) writes:
> In article <Byx2FI.48A@news.cso.uiuc.edu> seo@capone.ccsm.uiuc.edu (Jong-Wook Seo) writes:
>>First, what is your idea about the two-star-generals who took the power.
>>Do you believe they had enough 'experiences' for the management of the
>>economy?
>>Could you tell me any single example of your reaction to them if you 
>>didn't think so?
> 
> 	No, all they had was some little itty bitty experience dealing
> with the military.  Nothing big.  Just the military.  My reaction?  Good
> luck, you'll need it.  If you're lucky, you'll be like Park Chung-hee.  If
> you are not, you'll end up being Roh.  
>>
>>Second, you said "I'm not going to make a judgment on how they performed 
>>during the Rho administration, but I'll give them the edge on experience."
>>Could you explain to me what this means?
> 
> 	I meant just that.  One side has five-years of experience, the
> other side, nothing.  I will only give the Roh administration a C+ for
> their performance.  But what I was interested in was experience, not
> performace.
> 
> [example deleted]
> 
>>That is what the experienced guys are doing under No administration.
>>Basically, they lost their sense of economy.
>>It is not the matter of experience, but the matter of convection of 
>>technocrats.
>>What we need is not the blind experience, but the refreshment.
> 
> 	You serving doughnuts and coffee?  :)  I agree with you that we
> need change.  But at this point, the alternative doesn't seem much
> better than the status quo.  I made the same points that you made to
> me to my Republican friends because I thought that America needed a 
> change and Clinton was the man to do it.  But honestly, I can't do the
> same to Korean politics because I don't think DJ will be any better than
> YS.  And no, I don't consider JY to be acceptable either.  So, I'll wait
> until 1997 for the change.  >
> 
>>Finally, could you please solve my confusion?
>>If we follow the logic which you seem to follow, we will be captured in a 
>>endless loop, I think.
>>I mean, the so-called experienced are to be chosen because they
>>have experiences.
>>The non-experienced shouldn't be chosen because they are not.
>>In turn, they will never have been experienced in the future, so will 
>>never been chosen.
>>Is that what you want?
> 
> 	Perhaps reading my above explanation helped?  I will vote for
> the change when the alternative is better than the status quo.  And I
> don't consider DJ to be any better than YS.  Not just in economy, but
> also in other categories such as political philosophy, personal character,
> etc.  So, I'll just stick with five more years of a DLP member in the
> Blue House.  >
>
>
>Please let us not get so cynical about the situation right now!  I 
wouldn't say that 'smoking slick willy' is better than anybody else.  
I know I might sound too serious here but that's my attitude toward 
all this.

Jj




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