American
economy increased creative professionals of high-skilled jobs in sacrifice of
medium and low-skilled ones during the last three decades. It has caused the
severe polarization of the incomes. The haves have exploited technology,
talent, and money enough, even the cheap labor force of the other countries so
that they have made enormous wealth.
Japan had
endeavored to preserve manufacturing for their competitiveness and maintenance
of their employment. As a result, the crucial reform for the economic upgrade
was delayed, and the manufacturing industries were also out-of-dated behind the
radical technological advances and business flows, which was mainly generated by
Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurs.
Now they
have been overtaken by the developing ones. It is because Japan’s politicians
have hesitated in choosing unpopular restructuring and self-adjustment in the market itself like
the U.S. U.K., and Germany. In other words, the politicians did not feed ‘sour
medicine’ on their people. There haven’t been strong revolutionaries like Thatcher.
As a
matter of fact, creative talents are small, but uniquely American entrepreneurs’
culture and institutions help foster creative persons more than other cultures.
It is guessed that the ‘melting pot’ circumstance of multi-races and continual immigration
should make their members of the population educated for competition, creation, freedom and responsibility, fair rules,
How about
South Korea? South Korea is being stuck to ‘gray zone’ without creativity like
America, high-skilled labor forces like Japan, and low-wages workers like
China. ‘Sandwiched’ South Korea’s economy might suddenly fall off the
cliff.
Many
South Koreans do not still sense the seriousness of current unemployed
situation. Most of them do not know even why. They think it would be a kind of temporary
phenomenon, so it could be changed in no time. But the unluckiness lasts dull. It
seems that South Korea has just entered into the mouth of the long tunnel-like
unemployment.
We
are confronting both of the labor-killers’ technology and general labor spirit lowering crisis. Not only South Korea, but also every country
urgently needs a great, prophetic, political leader to save the present jobs-killing economy.//
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