JoongAng Ilbo’Politics Unboxing’ visits you by putting a hot topic on the streets of Yeouido in a 3-minute’video box’. We will summarize new issues in politics, complicated inner situation, and exciting backstory in ‘3-minute meeting’.
Former Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Kim Young-chun, who voted for the 4·7 Busan mayor by-election, is known as a’gentleman’ in Yeouido. “It’s a calm and rational personality,” he said. When he was a minister, he maintained a good relationship with opposition lawmakers.
Such former Minister Kim has changed markedly ahead of the election. In an interview with the JoongAng Ilbo on the 18th, former Minister Kim “Election to lose unconditionally, there is no such thing”And “Busan is now a place where there is no reassurance in the way that the people’s strength can be elected just by putting a stake.”Said. Former Minister Kim also strongly criticized candidate Park Hyeong-joon, who is running No. 1 in opposition approval ratings. “The Lee Myung-bak administration, where Candidate Park was the chief political officer of the Blue House, canceled the new airport business.” The following is a question and answer with former Minister Kim.
- It is said to be a difficult election for the Democratic Party. Why did you decide to run?
- “If the Democratic Party did not know if it decided to bet, I thought that Busan should hold an election properly. I thought that the people’s power should not make an election that is dominant. I started with that responsibility as I am the most advanced politician in Busan.”
- In last year’s general election, the seats of the Democratic Party decreased from six to three.
- “There were fewer seats, but the overall vote was 44.31%. Of course, if the political frame is dominant, it is an election that cannot be won. In the second half of the presidential term, there was also a case of Mayor Ogeodon. But it can be different when you think about the Busan economy. For the remainder of the government’s one year, Busan’s fate will change only when a major task, such as the rapid start of construction of a new airport on Gadukdo, must be accomplished. The ruling party mayor will do that.”
“I want to create a politics that creates new leaps of development while pioneering their own destiny,” said a preliminary candidate for the Democratic Party’s Busan Mayor Kim Young-chun. Reporter Song Bong-geun
- He said,’I will launch the first shovel at the new airport next year’. Is it possible?
- “Both the opposition parties have initiated a new airport special law in Gaduk Island. It is not difficult to pass it in the extraordinary National Assembly in February. In order to properly hold the 2030 Expo, which Busan intends to host, the new airport must be completed by 2029. It is tight considering the construction period. so The opposition mayor can never do this. This is something that the National Assembly must push out with the help of a giant ruling party with 180 seats.”
- It’s good for Busan, but there are concerns about overinvestment nationwide.
- “It’s not that we will only build a new airport. It means that Busan, Ulsan, and Gyeongnam will be united to create a dominant economic block in Northeast Asia. So, is this only good for Busan? I don’t believe in the myth that it can develop into a monolithic system in the entire metropolitan area.”
Former Minister Kim’s first pledge is’Gadeokdo New Airport to be completed early in 2029′. On the 21st, he published a press release stating that he built his own issue as’Gadeok’. On the other hand, candidate Park Hyung-jun’s No. 1 pledge is a’Busan-style 15-minute city’ to install hypersonic vacuum technology, Hyper-Loop, from downtown Busan to the new airport. He strongly criticized former Minister Kim, saying that Park’s pledge was “an ugly loop”. The two are close friends who were seniors and juniors in a club when they were in Korea University.
- He strongly criticized candidate Park Hyung-joon.
- “I criticized the policy. I didn’t blame people. The first promise was shocking. What Tesla intends to apply to the 600km section in the east and west of the United States, is it applied to the 30km section in downtown Busan? There is no acceleration/deceleration distance. I don’t understand. Candidate Park served as a member of the National Assembly, but has no administrative experience.”
A preliminary candidate for the Busan Mayor of the Democratic Party Kim Young-chun said, “It is the misery of our Korean politics that we continue to repeat the All or Nothing game and all-out war. Reporter Song Bong-geun
- Kim Young-sam entered politics as a secretary to the former president, and now, than after the Democratic Party. How do you view the camp conflict?
- “There are times when I feel very desperate. Is it our heart to hate and be hostile? I don’t think that’s it. I think there is a problem with the system. The single-appointed president has a very limited period of work. If you push closely to fulfill your mission for a short period of time, you will encounter a war with the opposition. Conversely, the opposition party believes that the next opportunity will come only when it is decisively stopped. So I From an institutional level, I think it is necessary to change the 5-year single-term presidential system immediately. Only then can this hostile political culture and society of division be healed.”
Interview = Reporter Oh Hyunseok [email protected]
Video/Graphics = Yeo Unha