President Yoon Seok-yeol speaks [사진 제공 : 연합뉴스]
President Yoon Seok-yeol received his first New Year work report from the Ministry of Strategy and Finance at the Blue House hotel this morning.
The work report of the Ministry of Strategy and Finance was held at the same time in the 12th Emergency Meeting for the Livelihood of Economic People and the 1st National Economic Advisory Meeting.
President Yoon said, “After the launch of the government, policies were implemented this year focusing on urgent issues that are in progress in order to overcome the waves of the global economic crisis well.” Reforms must be initiated,” he said.
“Even if labor, education and pension reforms are not popular, they must be done for future generations, and we must make 2023 the first year to promote reforms,” he stressed.
‘Labour’ reform was the main priority.
President Yoon said, “Improving the dual structure in the labor market, a rational compensation system, and changing the system of exploitation between labor and labor is to respect the value of labor.”
He also said, “The management of the labor management law is an absolutely inevitable task if we want to create and grow a country properly. In order to reduce inefficient disputes in labor management relations and use the costs for the welfare of workers, the rule must be established a law between labor and management firmly.”
He said, “Union corruption is one of the three major corruptions that must be eradicated in our society along with public office and corporate corruption.”
President Yoon evaluated that the economic authorities have managed the exchange rate and inflation well this year, but said, “High interest rates can aggravate the debt problem of households and corporations, and it is well managed so that it does not expand into insolvency households. and corporations, and further, the insolvency of the financial side. It must be done,” he said.
He also said that Korea should actively seek ways to revive the economy through economic cooperation with emerging markets showing high growth rates, infrastructure orders, and trade.
President Yoon also set up a day of criticism against the previous regime by talking about the real estate issue.
“In the past, ideologically, people dealing with real estate issues thought it was very ethical to impose heavy taxation on single multi-family households, but in a high interest rate situation, they prefer leasing, ” said the transmission. is done and the burden of housing costs is lifted.”
At the same time, President Yoon stressed, “From a realistic level, we need to significantly alleviate the tax burden to reduce the housing cost burden.”
