What should Korean society change for a better future?

World leaders pose for a group photo at the 26th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP26) held in Glasgow, England, on the 1st of last month (local time). President Moon Jae-in and the heads of 130 countries, including the United States, Canada, Germany and France, sought a new order to respond to climate change here. Glasgow=AP

Korean Points 2022 / Written by Chae Jin-won et al. / Compiled by Kang Yang-gu, etc. / Book by Book / KRW 10,000

“What we need now is not a hasty prediction. For the future of Korean society and furthermore, it is a matter of selecting a topic that we should consider first, and presenting it so that it can be debated fiercely in the public forum.”

“Korea Kang Yang-goo, the knowledge curator who woven the ‘Discussion 2022’, said this. He pointed out that the various trend books and forecast books that are poured into bookstores every year follow only the trends at the time, and emphasized that this book is different from them.

The book ‘Korean Issues 2022’, in which a large number of experts in each field, including professors, journalists, researchers, and members of the National Assembly, participated in What needs to be changed for this purpose is grouped into two major topics: ‘hard power’ and ‘soft power’. In Hard Power, the current situation of our country, which is divided, confronted, and conflicted both inside and outside the country, was divided into politics, economy, and diplomacy, and highlighted major issues in each field. Soft Power contains various controversies under major themes such as inequality, climate crisis, and happiness.

Written by Jinwon Chae and others/Edited by Kang Yang-gu, etc./Book by Book/Won KRW

Leaping to a developed country

With a pile of unresolved issues at home and abroad, the 20th What should Korea do to become a developed country ahead of the presidential election? The authors of this book first urged politicians and voters that a new government to be born in an era of polarization should achieve national unity. From the point of view of deliberative democracy, the first and most important task is to discuss the policy tasks that the next government should focus on and to reach a national consensus. After the Moon Jae-in administration took office, it was always a major task, but judicial reform and media reform, which remained at a standstill, were also pointed out. Second, the current economic problems such as employment, economic growth, and inequality alleviation that our society is experiencing are carefully analyzed and tasks are summarized. In relation to the reason why the central bank needs independence, how to solve the ever-present problem of rising house prices, the problems of monopoly and power abuse that are occurring as the platform business grows, the extension of the retirement age and youth unemployment issues that have been discussed in the face of an aging society, and the explosive increase in basic income Issues that have been repeated for decades, such as considerations and the urban regeneration system as a way to revive the local economy, as well as issues that have recently received attention are comprehensively covered.

In the third field of diplomacy, peace was a key theme. Among neighboring countries such as the United States and China, as well as North Korea and Japan, which are in conflict, South Korea is in the most difficult geopolitical position, and five authors each argued for what kind of diplomacy should be pursued among them. In particular, he said that Korea’s cultural influence has hit the world thanks to the performances of K-pop and K-content, and that we should be proud of its status, but demanded that Korea’s diplomacy take the lead in solving international problems rather than being confined to the Korean Peninsula.

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