Moon's 5-year roadmap will be unveiled in July

By Kim Rahn

Rep. Kim Jin-pyo of the ruling Democratic Party of Korea, second from left, chairman of a presidential advisory committee tasked to map out a five-year policy roadmap, applauds along with other committee members during a launch ceremony for the committee at the training center for the Financial Supervisory Service in Seoul, Monday. / Yonhap

A presidential advisory committee was established, Monday, to set up a five-year policy roadmap by the end of June based on President Moon Jae-in’s election pledges.

The committee will act as a de-facto transition team for the Moon administration which began immediately after the May 9 presidential election without a transition period.

“We will complete the five-year blueprint for state management by the end of June and will report it to the President in early July,” Rep. Kim Jin-pyo of the ruling Democratic Party of Korea, the committee chairman, said during the launch ceremony at the training center for the Financial Supervisory Service in Seoul.

The committee will prioritize Moon’s pledges and study how to prepare the necessary budgets. “We will categorize which pledges can be carried out soon and which require large-scale reform measures such as revisions in the law, as well as making detailed plans about which ministry is to do which job.”

He said the most important task is to create jobs. “We have to make a ‘golden triangle’ in which growth, employment and welfare are achieved altogether,” the chairman said. “Policies for growth, welfare, economy should not be made separately but all should be related and united.”

Kim said the committee will collect public opinion both online and offline and reflect it in policies in an effort to realize national sovereignty.

Rep. Park Kwang-on, the spokesman for the committee, said, “The committee will also look at campaign pledges presented by other presidential candidates, so the Moon government can adopt them if they are good even if they were the ideas of his former rivals.”

Besides Kim, the committee will have three vice chairmen _ Jang Ha-sung, newly appointed presidential chief of staff for policy; Hong Nam-ki, head of the Office of Government Policy Coordination; and Rep. Kim Tae-nyeon, head of the DPK’s policy committee.