President-Elect Yoon Backs Down on Key Policy Pledges

None of this is actually surprising to people who have been paying attention:

President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol applauds during a meeting with officials at Chuncheon Station in Gangwon Province, Wednesday. Joint Press Corps

The incoming Yoon Suk-yeol administration finds itself in hot water over its policy roadmap for the next five years, as some of his key election pledges ― disbanding the gender equality ministry, raising soldiers’ salaries and deploying additional U.S. missile systems in South Korea ― have been missing from a list of key tasks.

Those pledges were used as catchy slogans throughout Yoon’s presidential election campaign, after his Facebook postings that promoted such ideas grabbed voters’ attention despite their low feasibility. As the pledges were exempt from the roadmap, however, the Yoon administration faces growing criticism for backing down from its pledges. 

Korea Times

You can read more at the link, but the Gender Ministry is not going any where because Yoon’s party does not control the National Assembly to actual make its abolishment law. As we have discussed before here on the ROK Drop the Yoon administration had talked of purchasing a THAAD battery. However, this is not something you just go to a car dealership and buy. This is a multi-year long process to purchase, build the battery, and train personnel for billions of dollars. As far as paying troops more that is a huge bill that means money needs to be taken from so where else when the current Moon administration is already running huge deficits.

These are all things that cannot immediately be implemented and thus focusing on more realizable short term goals initially is probably prudent for the Yoon administration.

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setnaffa
setnaffa
2 years ago

South Koreans voted for exactly where they are right now.

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
2 years ago

Read my lips.

No new taxes.

Korean Person
Korean Person
2 years ago

So what happened to setnaffa’s “Let’s give Yoon a chance” thing?

Ah I see.

Since the Church of Setnaffarism™ advocates Keeping USFK in Korea Forever(KUKF)™, it would seem that the key event would have been Yoon keeping his campaign promise of deploying the second THAAD battery.

It would have proved to the Church of Setnaffarism™ that after five years of waiting, Yoon is indeed the one.

But since he has backtracked on the second THAAD battery, to the Church of Setnaffarism™ the whole KUKF™ does not look like a sure thing.

So like Trump, whom setnaffa threw under the bus, because of Trump starting the program to develop the Covid-19 vaccines, setnaffa has decided to also throw Yoon under the bus.

Ironic, since setnaffa pretty much got what he wished for.

There is however one person that setnaffa has yet to throw under the bus. Vladimir Putin.

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