Promoting First-Apply Then-Allocate System

“We will amend related laws so that the principle of the high school entrance system will be on a first-apply then-allocate basis while keeping the current equalized system for now,” announced GNP Chairman Choe Byung-ryol on January 19. He also said that he would discuss with the government about enabling the organization of advanced classes and non-advanced classes according to their course schedule within the school.

Chairman Choe announced these details in a new year press interview at the party’s Yeouido chapter and said that the party “plans to set policies to increase specialized high schools and independent private schools and policies in which the government financially supports low-income students entering those schools.”

He also explained that they “will promote a large-scale domestic industrial complex of international standards, early passage of the youth unemployment relief law, and a project to cultivate 100,000 youth professionals of the international economy in order to revive the economy.”

Chairman Choe confirmed his oppositional view on the transfer of the headquarters of the joint army and the U.N. army saying, “Because many of our representatives are against it, we will keep our position (an opposing view) on that even though it’s not a party opinion.”

He also remarked, regarding the special amnesty to the convicted for the illicit transaction to North Korea, that it is “an irrational act to obtain Honam votes” and added, “If the president continues these inadmissible acts for his party’s victory at the general election, we’ll have to take a new stance on the issues related to the president.”

Yeon-Wook Jung jyw11@donga.com