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- From: btlee@emx.cc.utexas.edu (Mr. Byungtae Lee)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.korean
- Subject: Re:Korean Economy
- Message-ID: <85931@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 04:51:58 GMT
- Sender: btlee@ut-emx.uucp
- Organization: The University of Texas at Austin; Austin, Texas
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- From: shlee@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Seunghun Lee)
- In article <85873@ut-emx.uucp> btlee@emx.cc.utexas.edu (Mr. Byungtae Lee) writes:
- >:supercomputer in their own.
- >:whereas i see many computers in KAIST are SUN computers from US.
- >:hey, KAIST folks, could you make supercomputer for yourselves?
- >
- > The fact that someone can technically make something
- > does not necessarily mean that he/she can comercially make that.
- > You do not take account of different economic systems.
-
- that has been our economic policy.
- if it is not profitable NOW, don't bother developing new tech
- but just buy foreign country's tech paying high price.
- still we can compete in world market with cheap labor force.
- it worked ok up to now without china and south asian country's developement.
-
- It is not economic policy. It is the fact of capitalism.
- No matter your support, Korean Economic development policy has been
- one of rare success.
- competition has been always there. How much do you think
- Taiwan, HonKong, singapore .. have more technologies than Korea does?
-
- let's see what is happenning now.
- we are losing most market which we had dominated with cheap price.
- like shoes, clothes, etc.
- go any shopping center near you and check it out.
- now it is obvious that we desperately need high quality so that
- people choose our products even though it is more expensive than others.
-
- Losing ground of labor intense products are natural when any economy
- grows. You may not know that still Korean export is growing
- relatively rapidly. The problem is whether we can move into the
- hitech/ capital intensive industry. Singarpore government once raised
- wage 20% during oil shock and established tax for foreign labor
- in order to accelerate industry restructuralization.
- That meant bankrupcy of cheap labor industries.
- We can not keep such cheap
- labor industry. So we can not judge superfacially.
- Do you expect still Korean export shoes, clothes, toys and so on?
- Then we had to block labor disputes by all means.
-
-
- we should execute GEUM-YUNG-SIL-MYUNG-GAE and Public-concept-of-land
- immediately, the sooner the better.
- you said next MINJJA goverment will do it.
-
- I did not say they will do. I said they said they would do.
-
- I agree that we should execute 'real-name-transaction-law'. I said when Roh gave it up, it would be the most critical mistake which he had
- committed. I think "public-concept-of-land" is the subset of the former because if we can track all financial transaction, we can collect very
- heavy tax on land. In fact, Korean now is running more or less this
- successfully. Now government is collecting huge tax on the
- unncessarily extra-land possession. After that, some companies such as
- Non-No bankrupted because of excessive land possession. Now banks do not take land for loan guranteeing properties as they used to.
-
- I will give them full credit if they do when it is not too late.
- -- in fact in 87's election, Rho promised to do it and broke
- his promise after got elected.
- we have waited already for five years for it.
- let's see how long we should wait to see them keep their promise.
-
- The question was why he broke his promise. I met many high rank
- economic planning officers after that. You may say simply that
- he did on the behalf of the rich which he represented.
- Even though many of officiers regreted the happening, they tried to
- explain me why they had to give it up.
- According to them (not my story),
- When Cho, Soon resigned from his position, Korean government concluded
- Korean economy could not absorb the shock from newly introduction of
- this regulation because it was really worst timing to do so. Korea
- economy was about to enter into deep recession and government found
- that much money flew out into foreign country to avoid this new law.
- In addition, Korean economy was not recovered from the impact of
- mass labor disputes either. They feared that forcing this regulation
- would bring the final death to Korean economy. Another excuse from
- then new vice prime minister,Lee was that even Japan did not have it
- yet because of oriental culture.
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