Chronicles of Long-Term Power / Park Chung-hee and Putin

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Russia and Ukraine had a sense of solidarity with Korea's Park Chung-hee government's economic development policy, which was very successful from a pragmatic point of view. President Putin, who managed to overcome the chaotic period after the collapse of the communist system, used the Park Chung-hee government as a policy model, and so did Ukraine.

 

Aside from national and human ethics, young President Park Chung-hee did a good job with a sense of mission. He knew well what the country and its people needed. A healthy body and a healthy mind were very forward-looking. Above all else, he had a good insight into humans. Having spent my childhood under the Park Chung-hee government, I can't forget the Saemaeul songs and other wholesome songs that sounded every morning from the local speakers. There was a time when such things were needed.

 

However, in the second half, the president was aging, and his long-term power was wet with inertia. As Acton said, absolute power corrupts absolutely. As the president himself was identical to the national system, the decline of the leader became a national problem. In the United States or Western Europe, where the national system has been established for a long time, such problems are less likely, but in a new country or a country in which the system has changed rapidly, the state of the state depends on the state of the leader. A wiser leader would have had to 'transfer' power to the state system in later years.

 

There are rumors about Putin's health abnormalities in Western intelligence agencies, and I think that President Putin, who was a relatively successful dictator, is experiencing the chronicle of long-term rule as it was in the second half of the Park Chung-hee administration. Conversely, Ukraine will have a unified consciousness in the process of national reconstruction after the war, and it is also thought that Ukraine will have conditions where the leadership of its young leaders can be strongly demonstrated.

 

The same goes for North Korea. Politically and ethically, one-man rule (dictatorship) is a backward system, but in a new country or a developing country, if a young leader has a sense of mission or responsibility, it is thought that it can create conditions for building a great nation in the long term. And North Korea and Ukraine have resources and basic technologies that South Korea's Park Chung-hee administration did not have in the past. Russian President Putin must stop the war and return to the beginning. And as a young leader, Putin must “still” work to rebuild Russia.