SK plan focuses on industrial progress
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South Korea requires strong, visionary and efficient government that creates political and social stability as it transition into an even more competitive nation in the region.
Dr Young-Sik Kim – the information and communications technology adviser at ICT Industry Promotion Bureau in Thailand – said that Korean government’s target-orientated five-year economic plan focused on industrial development in strategic areas.
He said that the government was trying to motivate the public with a can-do spirit through the New Community Movement (NCM) and education. Kim was speaking at the Society in Transition forum organised by the Faculty of Sociology and Anthropo-logy at Thammasat University.
He said the Korean government had also adopted an export-oriented industrial strategy with global standards for manufacturing and fast-track industrial development.
Other economic drivers were the focus on building infrastructure and the electrification of the country.
The government had also mobilised financial resources with aggressive loan diplomacy and had been encouraging people to save while helping big business and small and medium-sized enterprises.
Kim said that the NCM was centred on three central social values: diligence, self-help and cooperation, and had been set up to change people’s attitudes and mindsets.
He said the government was also focused on the environment, improving homes, roads and living conditions. It also wanted to increase household incomes and promote a healthy body and mind lifestyle so that society could achieve balanced development.
It aimed to create a solid and strong foundation for national development by changing the national culture and creating new-development momentum.
Kim said that the Korean economy was backed by strong government policy and laws as well as the investment first, adjustment second nature of the community.
The country was export-oriented as it had almost no natural resource, and was an open market with free trade agreements with the US, EU, India and Asean.
It relied on human resources, knowledge industries, and private sector development via the ICT eco environment.
Kim said that ICT development centred on e-government, promotion, expansion, and infrastructure.
The move helped promote the government’s efficiency, transparency, competitiveness and serviceability while enhancing the economy and human resources development.
The focused on ICT infrastructure development related to network (broadband, telecom, and area networks) and human resources development that could be accomplished by the government, academic institutes, and the private sector. They had developed standards in business processes, skills, methodology, and guideline.
