Further Subsidizing of Slave Labor
It appears the Roh administration is trying find every way possible to send every last Korean tax payer won to North Korea before they leave office:
While the Ministry of Unification plans to incorporate the power supply cost for North Korea’s Gaesong Industrial Complex into South Korea’s electricity fee system, the Ministry of Justice reportedly released its official opinion on the plan yesterday, saying, “There are no legal grounds for it.”
The Unification Ministry has been seeking ways to subsidize KEPCO, South Korea’s only electricity distributor, in the amount of two billion won, which corresponds to the annual losses incurred by supplying power to Gaesong. The losses have been compensated by government funds for inter-Korean cooperation, but the Unification Ministry was seeking to offset future costs by incorporating the power bill into South Korea’s fee system. [Donga]
So the Ministry of Justice says it is illegal, who cares we are going to do it any way appears to be the attitude of the Roh administration.
This whole plan smacks of outrageous bullshit. Why aren't the Korean corporations with operations at Kaeseong paying the bill? Why should S. Korean retail electricity customers pay for this, through higher bills?
If this project is suppose to be so damned sustainable, why can't it pay its way?
Why would the chaebol want to pay the power bill when you can get the South Korean taxpayer to pay it instead all in the name unification and the "image of peace".
[…] What does it mean to be a President of a country? There have certainly been some questionable actions by Presidents, sometimes even against the interests of their own country, but the concerted effort of President Roh to sell out South Korea should be raising more alarms than it has. Thankfully, his reign may soon be at an end. For the latest in atrocities against the state, we turn to Donga by way of ROK Drop: […]