Son’gon chongch’i [Korean elections special 7]
So it seems that the grateful people of the Democratic Chaebol Republic of Korea will soon have a new Dear Leader, a strong and decisive man, committed to pouring as much concrete over Korea as he can and bulldozing anything that gets in his way. In fact, I think we can safely say that Korea is about to enter the great era of victorious “Construction-First Politics” (先建政治).
But then, when your main opponent is trying to compete with his own concrete-lovin projects, you know you must be doing something right.
Of course, at the risk of upsetting the national pride of Korean rightwingers and their soon-to-be Dear Leader, I feel obliged to point out that this is just another of those wonderful innovations that Korea has imported from its favourite neighbour, a place where politics, pork barrels and the construction lobby have a long tangled history of close relations.
I despair for the countless working poor of this country. May they be filled with anger enough to tear up the concrete and hurl it back at the oligarchs!
Comment by trachys — December 17, 2007 @ 1:35 pm