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Defying President Lee Myung-bak, Hwang Woo-yea, the new floor leader of the ruling Grand National Party, is pushing forward a plan to withdraw tax cuts for the wealthy and conglomerates and to reduce college tuitions for families in the bottom 50% income brackets.
Via the Joong Ang Ilbo.
1:04 pm on May 30th, 2011 1
Hardly surprising what Hwang is doing. Lee Myungbak was unusually (for a ROK politician) Republican-style conservative in some ways, but even the GNP is typically egalitarian in many aspects.
3:06 pm on May 30th, 2011 2
Socialist!!!!
7:27 am on May 31st, 2011 3
Seeing all Korean politics through the lens of NKHRs as I tend to do, all I know abut the man is he’s been a big supporter of NKHRs as long as I’ve been following the issue. In fact, here he was hosting an event last Thursday at the National Assembly: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.223490710995746.66778.208631762481641