President Lee: ‘It Is Hard to Tolerate Obstructing Reform in the Name of Reform’

[Financial News] President Lee Jae Myung said on the 15th that “using the name of reform to obstruct reform is hard to tolerate.”
In a post titled “Through Actions, Not Words” on X (formerly Twitter), President Lee criticized public figures who “speak of reform and the greater cause and jump on the bandwagon, or even use the name of reform to obstruct reform,” saying that “it is understandable for those directly affected by the implementation of reform policies to push back.”
President Lee said, “If you want to talk about reform, rather than criticize someone for doing something that lowers approval ratings, you should first consider whether it is something that needs to be done,” emphasizing, “I must put the interests of the country and all its people ahead of my own and my group’s interests.”
President Lee cited economic and livelihood reforms to revive growth and ease polarization, as well as real estate, tax and fiscal reforms, the merger and consolidation of public institutions and their relocation to provincial areas, prosecution and police reform, and defense reform. He said, “To stay healthy, we have to undergo surgery and take bitter medicine, even if it hurts and we don’t like it,” adding, “True reform is unpopular work that cannot avoid opposition from numerous stakeholders.”
He added that “the reform tasks of our time are so large and numerous that, even if we work together flat out 24/7 until the day the president’s term ends, we would not be able to resolve them all,” and said reform is “something that must be proven through results achieved in implementation.”
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