“We have to respect the existing power of the people and the so-called ‘Yun Hee-kwan (a word that refers to the key officials of President-elect Yoon)’, but at the same time, we have to overcome it. If we boldly take up the opposite agenda and put it into practice, then President-elect Yoon Seok-yeol will also succeed. “
On the 31st, President Kim Tae-il of Jangan University, who voluntarily resigned from the political subcommittee of the National Integration Committee of the Presidential Takeover Committee, resigned on the 31st. <오마이뉴스>This is the advice he gave to President-elect Yoon Seok-yeol in an interview with
President Kim, who is inclined to moderate reform, joined the ‘Yun Seok-yeol transition committee’ with the persuasion of Chairman Kim Han-gil, but resigned voluntarily within a day after facing internal opposition. Although it was analyzed that this was due to the emphasis on the necessity of ‘feminism’, President Kim acted on the same side as the directors recommended by the Liberty Korea Party (current People’s Power) when he was appointed as a director of KBS after receiving a recommendation from the Bareunmirae Party in an interview on the same day. He also cited the reason why he didn’t do it.
Regarding the background of his voluntary resignation, President Kim said, “It was Chairman Kim Han-gil who suggested that we join the takeover committee, and it was Chairman Kim Han-gil who told me that there was such an atmosphere. I didn’t ask,” he said.
President Kim said, “It is their ability to not be able to do this (embracing opposing voices),” he said, “but it’s unfortunate.” He felt the need for ‘integration’ while working as a moderate reformer in Daegu, a city with a strong conservative tendency. He said that he expected a way beyond dichotomous clashes and camp conflicts by designing ‘major electoral districts’ and ‘primary runoff voting systems’.
He also gave a hint to Yoon-elect, who made the ‘abolition of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family’ as a major promise. President Kim said, “Feminism is a value that women and men must achieve together. pointed out
next <오마이뉴스>This is a Q&A summary of the interview conducted with him on the 31st.
“It seems to be the cause of not agreeing with the directors recommended by the Korean Party during KBS’s director activities”
– Do you think what came out of the transition committee was related to the voices against the abolition of the leisure ministry?
“I haven’t personally confirmed it. I’ve heard that they generally protest and have strong intentions. I didn’t confirm what specifically they took issue with. <경향신문>I used to write Jeong-dong column on a regular basis, so that could be a problem. When I was writing about feminism during the election period, I was a bit blunt, but feminism is a value that women and men must achieve together.”
– Through the column, I saw feminism as a necessary agenda for our society.
“I was born in a very conservative neighborhood, and my family is conservative. I am internalized into traditional patriarchalism. Feminism is a value that I took as my head as I studied in college. So, when the head controls the heart well, it’s okay, but when it doesn’t, it gets difficult. I think it’s the same as this personal inner life socially. The new value of feminism cannot be naturally blended into the existing social flow. is bound to cause conflict.
But (the power of the people) is now digging into the rift of that conflict and breaking it up. By widening the rift, we mobilize and strengthen it politically. In the process of accepting feminism, I was a bit criticized for escalating the conflicts that inevitably arise personally and socially and dividing them politically.”
– Is there another reason?
“I served as a director of KBS for about 3 years. It was recommended by the Bareun Mirae Party. At that time, when the directors recommended by the Liberty Korea Party wanted to unify their actions as an opposition party, ‘No matter where we were recommended, we act independently and according to our conscience from the point of view of realizing the KBS program. Let’s do it.” The members of the Liberal Korean Party’s recommended directors must have been very upset. I think that may be one reason.”
– I went to the takeover committee and said there was a backlash within the party. Who did you hear about it?
“It was Chairman Kim Han-gil of the National Integration Commission who suggested that we join the takeover committee, and it was Chairman Kim Han-gil who told me that there is such an atmosphere.”
– What did Chairman Kim Han-gil say?
“Chairman Han-gil Kim said after the announcement (my joining the transition committee) was made, ‘There is a Vito opinion from the party side, and it is stronger than I thought.’ I didn’t specifically ask if I did violating).
– What did Chairman Kim Han-gil say when he expressed his resignation?
“Chairman Han-Gil Kim said he was sorry. It meant that he had to accept my resignation. I didn’t say it long. Because it was obvious.”
– Don’t you think that political resentment or dynamics within the transition committee worked?
“There is nothing I wanted to buy. Since I have a stance of moderate reform, I don’t usually say harsh words anywhere. Now, maybe there will be new forces joined by the elected Yoon Seok-yeol. The forces of the groups are not unified. That is the same with Ahn Cheol-su and Kim Han-gil. In that context, my story may have become a bit of a subject. I’m guessing it’s not. I can’t know the contents.”
– I’m sorry, isn’t it?
“Chairman Kim Han-gil must also have been embarrassed. He refused to continue, but he continued to encourage so I joined the transition committee. As Chairman Kim Han-gil, who knows this all too well, it would have been embarrassing and embarrassing to tell me that there is now a backlash from the party. There is no such thing as an issue I want to make an issue with. It is their ability to not be able to do this (embracing opposing voices).
“I can’t take a few steps towards integration through conversion and surrender… We need to introduce a major constituency system for local elections”
– What did you want to do?
“I lived in Daegu with a reformist stance and felt the sense of integration desperately. Because of regionalism, people with a slightly reformist stance like me are almost choked. People with a conservative stance in Honam would also be the same. For me, Regional integration and national integration were very important and desperately needed.
From a scholarly point of view, every president, from Syngman Rhee to Moon Jae-in, has advocated national unity as the banner, but all failed without exception. So national unity is very difficult. I seem to have thought of integration as creating a homogeneous group through the conversion and surrender of people with criticism or opposing positions. This integration is doomed to fail. Integration is creating conditions for diverse values to coexist and coexist with each other. Integration through conversion and surrender is only a few steps away from being broken.”
– Did you have any specific ideas for integration?
“We must get rid of the winner-take-all system political system. The current single-member district system, regionalism combined with it, and the division system combined with this system are a struggle that makes it impossible to overcome the dichotomous framework. I thought of doing it once.
For example, in the local election system, a major constituency system must now be implemented in order to realize political diversity in Yeongnam and Honam. The same goes for parliamentary elections. Election must also have a runoff voting system. Therefore, it is necessary to open a channel through which minority opinions can be expressed and to have an ontological meaning in detail. Wouldn’t it be possible to buffer and overcome the dichotomous clashes and faction conflicts? I wanted to do a design like this.
– I think there are expectations that I had when I joined the ‘Yoon Seok-Yeol Takeover Committee’.
“The power of the people is obvious. However, there were some expectations that President Yoon Seok-yeol’s leadership had the breakthrough power to soften the existing conservative camp a little. Without that expectation, he probably wouldn’t have joined.”
– Politically, was it expected that you were a rookie?
“Yes. It is said that the existence of Yoon Seok-yeol, who is not immersed in the existing Yeouido grammar, is a style that can just break through once something hits. So I thought that I could create momentum to reconstruct this system a little.”
– Do you have any advice for President-elect Yoon?
“We need to network new human resources that go beyond the power of the people, and discover and expand an agenda that goes beyond the power of the people to communicate and coordinate. You have to respect the people who support the elected president, but (Yoon-elect) has to go beyond that, so that he can do what he wants to do and contribute to the country.
I think that ‘conservatives should be reforming progressives and progressives should be the way to reform conservatives’. For example, Roh Tae-woo adopted the Inter-Korean Basic Agreement. He could have done it because he was a conservative president. If a progressive president had done it, the country would have been turned upside down. The Korea-US FTA was also organized less noisy because President Roh Moo-hyun did it. If the conservative president had said it would, the country might have been split in two. I think Yoon Seok-yeol will also be successful if he does not distinguish between agendas, boldly raises the opposite agenda and puts it into practice.”
