Wednesday, March 15, 2006

The PM is leaving

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200603/200603140036.html
Prime Minister Lee Hae-chan has resigned because of a "scandal" over his golfing (with some bad guys) during a holiday (that also saw the launch of a nation-wide railway strike). Now, I'm glad to see the guy go. Personally, I've always felt he was a Noh lapdog, but I guess that what the position of Prime Minister is often about.

Leaving because of a golf scandal though, I'm not sure about it. I am the first to say that this administration needs to leav, but all too often nowadays it seems that they bow far too quickly to public opinion. A Super Comment Tribe (
http://news.naver.com/news/read.php?mode=LSS2D&office_id=025&article_id=0000599179&section_id=105§ion_id2=226&menu_id=105) Seems to be ruling online opinion (See Marmot for translation - http://www.rjkoehler.com/?p=2541).

I worry about how this will affect politics in the future. It seems far too easy to bend to the eb and flow of internet waves.

*sorry for bad link, I have forgotten how to hot-link
/sigh

1 comment:

Jellie said...

Oh. I believe it is with a good reason anyways. Let us look at the brighter side of things.