Quotations of the day

Even separated subsidiaries can trade goods or exchange funds among themselves. (Financial Supervisory Commission chairman Lee Keun-Young on Thursday, answering a reporter who asked if intra-group aid among of subsidiaries of the Hyundai Group as part of its self-rescue efforts pose any problem)

It is now high time that the prosecution is released from the grip of politics and power into the hands of the people. (Rep. Ahn Sang-Soo of the Grand National Party on Nov. 16, speaking to a meeting of GNP National Assemblymen on how to vote on a bill to impeach the prosecutor-general)

I am afraid that our country will degenerate over time into a "state of mixed crises" combining the political and social unrest of the South American type with the prolonged economic slump of the Japanese model. (Rep. Han Seung-Soo of the Democratic National Party in his parliamentary interpellation of the administration on Thursday)

It is an illusion to think that Korea is a country with advanced information technology. (Rep. Kwack Chi-Young of the Democratic Party, who was once the president of Dacom, during a parliamentary interpellation of the government on Thursday, urging the speedy adoption of IT by all economic entities)

The principle has been repeatedly applied every year for the sake of normalizing school education, and the same holds true this year. (Park Do-Soon, president of the Korea Institute of Curriculum & Evaluation on Thursday, commenting on the alleged defects of the college scholastic aptitude test for 2001)

The fact that some people fear our reacting favorably to the idea of a lower-level confederation may be falling into a North Korean trap apparently stems from a persecution complex common during the Cold War era. (A report on Seoul's North Korean policy prepared by the Unification Ministry and presented to the Advisory Council on Unification Thursday)