The direction of government affairs seen through 10 business reports
Mayor 117 Government 100 Thought 90
Emphasis on the importance of business-led economy and technology
Mention freedom, industry, and welfare more than 50 times
2nd year plan revealed through public report
Use message windows instead of door stepping
▲ President Yoon Seok-yeol is making remarks at the 2023 government work report of the Financial Services Commission held at the Blue House guesthouse on the 30th. President Yoon ordered, “Please discuss policies to foster the financial industry so that the financial industry can generate high profits this year and provide many high-quality jobs for future generations.”
Reporter Park Ji-hwan
“If you look at the closing remarks, you can see the direction of state affairs.”
I am talking about the closing remarks that President Seok-Yeol Yoon ‘poured out’ without a manuscript in the New Year’s work report of each ministry, which was completed on December 21 last year, starting with the Ministry of Strategy and Finance and ending with a total of 11 rounds to the Financial Services Commission. Unlike all remarks with pre-written manuscripts, it is evaluated that President Yoon and the current government’s state administration philosophy, such as the economy led by the market and companies and the will to foster science and technology, were naturally reflected in the closing remarks of the business report, which were improvised for more than 30 minutes at the longest. .
On the 30th, the Seoul Shinmun analyzed the full text of the remarks at the end of the 1st to 10th business report presided over by President Yoon through the ‘Jelly Lab Morphological Analyzer’, and the most frequently mentioned word was ‘market’, and it was found that it appeared 117 times in total. It was followed by ‘government’ 100 times, ‘thought’ 90 times, ‘economy’ 86 times, and other words mentioned more than 50 times were state and freedom (78 times each), society (74 times), and corporations (73 times). , technology (69 times), policy (63 times), industry (57 times), and welfare (51 times).
Analysts say that the high frequency of mentioning words related to the economy or industry is because President Yoon repeatedly emphasized the importance of the market economy and the government’s role in supporting it across all ministries. President Yoon mentioned ‘market’ and ‘government’ from the beginning of his closing remarks at the meeting with the Ministry of Strategy and Finance, which was his first business report. He said at this meeting, “I always made a decision to participate in politics with the banner of a free market economy system, which is both sides of the same coin as the free democratic political system. The market can naturally be generated by corporate interests,” he said, adding that the role of the government is to create a fair competition system that enhances the productivity and efficiency of the market. The market economy and the role of the government, mentioned in his first work report, have been repeated since. A high-ranking official in the presidential office explained, “It is the government’s role to create a free market and make it an arena of opportunity for fair competition.”
Taking the 1939 movie ‘Gone with the Wind’ as an example, he explained the background of America’s industrial competitiveness, introduced the case of support for the wine industry by the French financial group ‘Societe General’, and emphasized the importance of finance. As examples were given, the time to speak naturally increased. On the 5th, the Ministry of Education and Culture, Sports and Tourism, the closing remarks were about 28 minutes, and on the 27th, the Ministry of Public Administration and Security, the Ministry of Unification, the Ministry of Personnel Innovation, and the Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs lasted about 35 minutes.
Unlike the ministry work report immediately after taking office, which was conducted in the form of a private meeting with the minister, the work report is conducted in the form of a report to the public from the second year in office. It means that the business report was used as a window to deliver a message to the public in a situation where there were no New Year’s press conferences or doorstepping (questions and answers on the way to work).
Another official from the presidential office said, “President Yoon’s closing remarks are different from reading a manuscript written by an aide.”
Reporter Ahn Seok
